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NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITE OP OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 261
C. Richei, of florists, described by them as an Australian and Tas-
manian species, as I have seen it in cultivation about Edinburgh, does
not appear to me to difi"er essentially from the Otago plant. It is,
however, greatly larger and stouter. I saw it 2 feet high and in flower
in the Dean Cemetery (July). It grows vigorously "in the open"
in this country, and is one of those somewhat numerous New Zealand
plants that experience already proves to be hardy* under cultivation in
Britain.
Genus VII. Vittauinia \_Eurybiopsis, Fl. X. Z.].
1. V. australi-s, A. Kich. Top of the Feriy Bluff, Clntha Yerry
December, in flower, W. L. L.
My Otago plant is under 6 in. high. Young branch-shoots very his-
pid ;
sometimes the woody, older branches are also more or less clothed
with tbe same long, flexuose, whitish hairs. Leaves also hispid, with
long, coarse, straggling hau'S ; sometimes nearly ^ in. long and i in.
broad ; 3-lcbed at apex [mid-lobe being the larger] ; rounded ; obovate-
spathulate. Upper and young leaves frequently or generally simple
or entu'e,—notching of the margin occurring subsequently in the older
and lower leaves. Pappus ^ in. long ; reddish as in various species of
Celi/iisia.
Tarndale specimens in my herbarium are more procumbent, more
slender, with smaller leaves ; less hispid in all parts of the plant (mostly
glabrous) ;
the hairs (where present) few and chiefly fringing the leaf-
margin. Branches more distinctly prolonged into a filiform peduncle.
Flower-head about ^ in. in diameter in both series of forms [Otago
and Nelson].
Genus VIII. Lagenophora.
1. L. Forsieri, DC. L^plands about Fairfield, Saddlehill ; 2-3 in.
high ;
October, in flower, W. L. L.
The " Daisy "f of the Otago settler; a beautiful miniature repre-
sentative of our BelUs perennis, L. Probably the " Papataniwhaniwha,"
or " Daisy-like plant,":|: (Williams) of the North Island INIaori.
* Vide Author's ' Contributions to New Zealand Botany' (1868), p. 20.
t According to Dr. Hooker, " the only representative of the Daisy in Xew
Zealand" is Brachycome Sinclairii, Hook. f. British nurserymen, on the
other hand, assign the name " Kative" or " New Zealand Daisy" to Cotida minor.
Hook. f. ; and to a Vittadinia, said to be from New Zealand, which is cultivated
as V. trilohata.
X A term which may belong partly or only to Brachycome Sinclairii, or
S. odorata. Hook. f.
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