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264 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSIT.E OF OTAGO, NEAV ZEALAND.
tended into long peduncles. Stem and branches woody, glabrous, shin-
ing. Leaves more uniform than in the Tarndale plant, but still variable ;
more coriaceous, shining and glabrous above ; more closely arranged
and frequently subimbricate ; but they also occur both spreading and
recurved in the same plant. Upper leaves approach the linear character,
while lower are broadly ovate or lanceolate.* Some of the broader
leaves are distinctly apicvdate, others only subacute. Size of leaf some-
times ^ in. long and about ^ in. broad. Under side silvery without dis-
tinct tomentum ; even in young and upper leaves the tomentum more
resembles a silvery coating of paint [as in some Celmisiie] than cottony
matter. Upper surface of young leaf dries a blackish-brown. Nerve
or midrib never distinct. Flower-head larger than in the Tarndale
plant ; sometimes nearly 1 in. across.
Tarndale specimens in my herbarium have the heads on long pe-
duncles, and other characters of belUdlo'ides. Stem is much more slen-
der (filiform) than in my Otago plant, and the terminal or peduncu-
late portion of the branches is much less leafy. Leaves also are smaller
and more delicate ; upper very small, narrowly linear, passing into
lanceolate ; lower obovate, apiculate, glabrous above, about \ in. long
and under ^ in. broad ; spreading and recurved—not here imbricate.
Margins frequently revolute. Under side more or less cottony-silvery
[tomentum generally very fine and closely appressed]. Midrib ob-
scure. Flower-beads -^-f in. in diameter.
2. G. coll'mum, Lab. Eanges about Finegnnd, Lower Clutha, 4-6
in. high, W. L. L. So far represents in aspect and habitat our common
British Jntennaria dioica, Gfertn.
My specimens of collinum are small and somewhat slender plants
under ^ :
ft. high. Leaves
lower
(radical) petioled, under 2 in. long
and about j in. broad ; upper sessile, spathulate below, becoming
linear-lanceolate above; acute in both. Capitula small, of few heads.
I have no hesitation in Veferring all my Otago spocimeus of inmlu-
cratum and coll'mum to a single type. The only difference between
them consists in the larger globular inflorescence of the former, which I
cannot, however, regard as a sufficient specific distinction. Scape and
plant generally are not so cottony in collinum iis in the spreading,
tufted forms of involucratum. Stems leafy as in the larger forms of
involucratum. Leaves have the characters of those of tliat species, than
which tliey are perhaps less variable ; more decidedly glabrous above