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NOTES ON SOME COMPOSIT.E OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 263
sometimes in the form of simple or double, rounded, large teeth. Lower
and basal leaves frequently prolonged below into a petiole, which is often
1 iu. long ; upper leaves only are sessile, with auricled base. Amount
of cottony coating varies greatly ; sometimes very indistinct to naked
eye ; always most prominent and abundant on the young leaves, and
flower and leaf-shoots. • Involucral
so.
.
scales sometimes glabrous, or nearly
2. E. quadridentata, DC. Uplands about Saddlehill; December,
in flower, W. L. L. The " Peka-peka" or " Peki-peki" of the South
Island Maori (Lyall)
A much more slender plant than the preceding. Cottony down
more appressed and finer : best seen on under side of leaf and on lower
part of the grooved stem [young leaf-shoots very cottony-silvery].
Head panicled rather than corymbose; panicle very open or lax, 4-5 in.
long and 3 in. broad. Heads few; involucral scales glabrous. Bracts
generally also glabrous. Leaf subspathulate below, linear above. Lower
leaves generally under 3 in. long and \ in. broad ; while upper are
less than \ in. broad. Lower basal ones longest and petioled ; while
upper one sessile. Margin sometimes with a slight tendency to notch-
ing ; not more distinctly revolute than in arguta. Apex acute, sub-
rigid.
Genus XL Gxaphalium. " Puatea" is a Maori term apparently
applied to such species as are used medicinally by the natives. Some
species appear to be both luxuriant and hardy in cultivation in this
country. Thus at Trinity, in Mr. Gorrie's hands, two or three very
woolly-leaved annual forms, received from Otago in 1861, grew so ra-
pidly and vigorously in the open garden, that he reports them " likely
to become weeds if not kept under."
1. G. bellidiokles. Hook. f. L plands about Fairfield, Saddlehill
October, in flower, W. L. L.
My Otago plant has more the characters of G. prostratum. Hook. f.
I have seen no authentic specimens of the latter ; but from comparing
the ' Handbook' descriptions of beiUdioides and prostratum with my
Otago plants, which have been refeiTed to the former species by Dr.
Hooker, I cannot doubt that both species may with advantage be con-
sidered belonging to a single tvpe. In my Otago specimens, the whole
plant is stouter, more leafy, and more cottony than in Tarndale forms,
which agree with the book-characters of bellidioides. Branches not ex-
;