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Var. e. la n a ta ; to ta lana laxa molli floccosa nivea in d u ta. (Ad C. montanam Tasmaniæ accedit.)
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Is la n d s ; abundant, from th e E a st Cape southward. Var. S. Milford
Sound, L y a ll. Var. e. Nelson, B id w ill (on th e mountains).
An extremely variable plant. Leaves generally ail radical, m th only small bracts on the scape, but sometimes
running up the scape, 1 -8 inches long, very vailable in breadth, petiolate or nearly sessile, blunt and apiculate,
obovate or spathulate, quite smooth or pubescent, or covered with scattered hairs, or woolly (in var. e). Scape 4
inches to 14 foot high, covered m th scattered bracts, smooth, pubescent, or woolly, stout or slender. Globular
heads o f capitula \ inch to 2 inches broad, round, soft, dotted with the yellow florets.—Mr. Bidwill says of var. c
that the smell is disagreeable, and hke Rhubarb.
Gen. X I I . CA S S IN IA , Br.
Capitulum p au c i(9 -1 2 )-ilo rum ; flosculis omnibus hermaphroditis tubulosis v. paucissimis ambitu
foemineis angustis. Receptaculum angustum, paleaceum ; paleis distinctis, linearibus, floribus immixtis,
apicibus plerumque radiantibus albidis. Involucri squamoe multiseriatæ, scariosæ, exteriores imbricatæ,
breves, interiores sæpissime elongatæ, apicibus albidis radiantibus. Stigmata obtusa, liispidula. Antheroe
inclusæ, basi bisetæ. Achenium obovatum, erostre. Pappus 1 -2-serialis ; setis plurimis filiformibus, apice
incrassatis a u t peniciRatis.
Branching shrubs, with small, evergreen or rusty-coloured, harsh leaves, and panicles of many white flowers.
Heads small, nine- to twelve-flowered ; flowers all tubular, hermaphrodite, or with a few slender female ones at the
circumference. Receptacle very small, with narrow, hnear, white-tipped scales, like tbe inner ones of the involucre,
scattered amongst the florets. Scales of the involucre numerous, scarious, generally pubescent, outer imbricated,
inner with white radiating tips. Anthers with two bristles at the base. Achenium obovate, blunt. Pappus of one
or two series of slender, soft hairs, which are pilose or thickened at the tips.—A rather extensive New Holland and
Tasmanian genus. (Named in honour of M. Henri Cassini, an eminent French botanist.)
1. Cassinia leptophylla, B r .; frutex ramuhs fastigiatis incano-pubescentibus, foliis lineari-ligulatis
eonfertis (ericoideis) patulis v. recurvis obtusis marginibus recurvis u trin q u e v. subtus incanis, corymbis
terminaHbus, capitulis parvis, involucris tu rb in a tis 6- 8-floris glabratis v. tomentosis, acheniis puberulis.
B r . in L in n . Soc. Trans. BC. Prodr. Calea, Forster. C. cinerea, Ba n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
Y ar. /3 ; foliis paulo latioribus superne glaberrimis vernicosis.
Var. 7 ; fohis paulo longioribus superne glaberrimis subtus ramuhsque tomento fulvo viscido tectis,
involucris glaberrimis anguste obconicis.
H a b . No rth e rn and Yliddle Is la n d s ; especially on th e east coast, growing in sandy places. Ba n k s and
Solander, Forster, Sinclair, etc. Var. Bort Underwood, L ya ll. Var. 7 . Canterbury? L ya ll.
Very variable in size (10-16 feet high) and woodiness of the stems and branches, which are covered with white
down. Leaves small, heath-like, very numerous, uniform in size, 14-3 lines long, crowded on the slender branches,
spreading or recurved, linear, blunt, hoary on both sides or below only, with recurved margins. Corymbs terminal,
ot many white, obconical heads, Avitli white rays formed of the inner involucral scales, and tbe scales of the receptacle.
Involucre longer than the leaves, imbricate; outer scales whitish, smooth or pubescent, six- to eight-flowered.
Achenia smooth.—Very nearly allied to the following, and best distinguisbed from it by the nariow smaller leaves,
and smaller heads of flowers. Var. S approaches C. retorta in the larger leaves, and var. y has the yellow and glutinous
foliage and young leaves of C. Fauvilliei'sii.
2. Cassinia reiorfa, A. C u n n .; robusta, ramis fasciculatis foliosis dense tomentosis, foliis plerumque
recurvis obovato-oblongis linearibusve obtusis superne incanis v. g labratis su b tu s p u b e appressa dense
vestitis marginibus recurvis, corymbis te rminalibus 2- 8-cephalis, involucris tu rb in a tis tomentosis radiatis.
BC. Prodr.
H a b . N o rth e rn Islan d . YYangaroa Bay, Auckland, etc., generaUy nea r th e coast, Frazer, Cunningham,
etc.
Very nearly allied indeed to C. leptophylla, as stated in the description of that plant ; but more robust, with
larger, broader, more obovate, and more constantly recurved leaves, densely tomentose below. Corymbs of few
(three to eight) heads, with very woolly peduncles. Heads of flowers larger than in C. leptophylla, 4-4 inch long,
broadly turbinate, woolly, with eight to ten florets.
3. Cassinia Vauvilliersii, Hook. fil. ; ramulis robustis fastigiatis foliosis sulcatis foliisque subtus to mento
fulvo appresso dense vestitis, foliis lineari-oblongis obovatisve obtusis v. retusis marginibus revolutis
superne glabratis costa subtus prominula, corymbis terminalibus polycephaHs tomentosis, capitulis radiatis.
Ozothamnus, Homb. et Jacq. Voy. au Pô le Sud. t. 5. Fl. Antarct. p . 29.
H a b . N o rth e rn Is la n d ; common on th e mountains, B idw ill, etc. Middle an d Southern Is la n d s ; frequent
on th e mountains and w'est coast, B idw ill, L y a ll.
An erect, dense shrub, 6-10 feet high, with fasciculate branches, which are furrowed and covered with a closely
appressed, buff-coloured tomentirm, which also clothes the under surface of the leaves. Leaves coriaceous, much
larger than in the two previous species, 4~4 inch long, spreading or recurved, decuiTcnt on the stem, linear-obovate,
oblong, or spathulate, blunt or retuse, smooth or a Uttle pubescent above; margins recm-ved. Corymbs terminal,
of many (ten to forty) closely-packed white heads, on tomentose peduncles. Heads obconic, with tomentose,
imbricating involucral scales, of which the inner have white spreading tips. Florets eight to ten.—This plant was
originally published as an Ozothamnus from Lord Auckland’s Group, where it is very abundant. I t so very closely
resembles the C. cuneifolia, k . Cunn. (in DC. Prodr.), of Mount Wellington, in Tasmania, that were that plant a
true Cassinia I should possibly have united them, but the latter having no paleæ on the receptacle amongst the
flowers, it must be referred to Ozothamnus.
Gen. X I I I . OZOTHAMNUS, B r .
Omnia Cassinioe, sed receptaculum epaleaceum. Flores foe m in e i speciebus Novæ Zelandiæ 0.
This genus so closely resembles the former, th a t it requires some care to distinguish them ; the absence of any
paleæ amongst the florets characterizes this. All the species are Australian and Tasmanian, except those of New
Zealand ; many are very strongly scented. I have never found any female flowers in the New Zealand species.
(Name from ©¿w, to be scented, and ôaixvoi, a bush.)
Leaves spreading, petiolate.
1. Ozothamnus glomeratus, Ho o k . fil.; frutex, ramis to rtis laxe foliatis, ramulis iucano-tomentosis,
foliis spai’sis petiolatis ovato-rotundatis apiculatis plauis subtus deuse uivco-lanatis, cor}onbis congestis
glomeratis axiUaribus te rminahbusque tomentosis, involucri squamis scariosis. Swammerdammia glomerata,
Raoul, Choix de P la n te s ,p . 20. 1 .16.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Is la n d s ; on dry hills, from th e Bay of Islands (Cunningham) to Otago,
L ya ll.
A bush, with slender, spreading, flexuose, twiggy branches, tbe top ones woolly. Leaves scattered, 4 -1 inch
long witli the petiole, broadly ovate-rotiindate, blunt, with a little point, bright green and smooth above, white with
soft wool below. Heads crowded into dense rounded corymbs, which are terminal, or sessile and axillary, 4 -1 inch
in diameter. Involucral scales very delicate and hyaline, woolly at tbe base.—This is a very distinct plant, easily to
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