4. S. saxifragoides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 144.—Rootstock short, stout, as thick as the thumb, densely shaggy with softbrownish wool. Leaves all radical, spreading; blade 3–6 in. long, broadly oblong or orbicular, obtuse at the tip, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, sometimes oblique, thick and coriaceous, entire or crenulate, upper surface silky or villous, not bristly, becoming glabrate when old; under-surface densely clothed with white woolly tomentum; petioles stout, 1–4 in. long, woolly or villous. Scapes stout, 2–12 in. high, simple or branched, densely covered with white or purplish glandular tomentum; bracts linear or linear-oblong. Heads 2–8, ¾–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute, thickly tomentose. Achenes linear, glabrous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159; Kirk, Students Fl. 339.
South Island: Port Lyttelton and other localities on Banks Peninsula, not uncommon. January–March.
A handsome species, separated from large states of S. lagopus, some of which approach it very closely, by the much stouter habit, more copious villous hairs, and larger thicker leaves, which are silky above and never show the stout bristly hairs so characteristic of S. lagopus and bellidioides.
5. S. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 146.—A leafy herb 1–2 ft. high or more, usually glandular-pubescent or almost villous, rarely glabrate. Rootstock thick, crowned with long silky hairs. Stem stout or slender, simple, erect, terminating in a broad corymb of many flower-heads. Leaves numerous, quite entire; lower 2–10 in. long, 112–14 in. broad, linear or narrow-linear, acute or acuminate, contracted or petiolate above the sheathing villous base, 1–5-nerved; cauline gradually becoming smaller, sessile, amplexicaul, tapering from the base to the apex. Corymbs usually large and broad; peduncles 1–5 in. long, slender, simple, bracteate. Heads large, 1–2½ in. diam.; involucral bracts in 1 series, linear, pubescent or glabrate. Ray-florets ½–1 in. long, yellow, spreading. Achenes linear, silky, ribbed. Pappus-hairs unequal, rigid, scabrid.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 160; Kirk, Students' Fl. 339.
Var. scorzonerioides, Kirk, l.c. 340.—Glandular-pubescent. Stems more robust. Leaves shorter and broader, 2–8 in. long, ¼–¾ in. broad, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved. Heads larger; rays varying in colour from yellow or salmon-coloured to pure white.—S. scorzonerioides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 146.
South Island, Stewart Island: Not uncommon in mountain districts throughout. Descends to sea-level in Stewart Island, ascends to quite 5000 ft. in Nelson and Canterbury. December–February.
An exceedingly handsome plant, forming one of the chief ornaments of the subalpine flora of the South Island.
6. S. antipodus, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 341.—An erect much-branched annual or biennial herb 1–2 ft. high; stems stout, fistulose, ⅓–½ in. diam.; branches spreading, grooved. Leaves
