1–2 in. diam., compound, the lower ones on long peduncles, forming a terminal open panicle; involucral leaves linear-subulate, shorter than the rays. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 15–14 in. long; carpels 5-winged.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 201.
South Island: Not uncommon in mountain districts from Nelson to Southland, especially within the influence of the western rainfall. 1500 ft. to nearly 5000 ft. December–January.
A handsome and graceful plant, easily recognised by the finely divided membranous leaves with hair-pointed lobes. Mr. Petrie sends a variety from Mount Tyndall with the lobes almost capillary, with much longer hair-points.
7. L. brevistyle, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 95.—Stems 6–18 in. high, slender, grooved. Radical leaves 4–12 in. long; petiole somewhat rigid, shortly sheathing at the base; limb linear-oblong in outline, rarely broader and ovate-oblong, 2–3-pinnate; primary divisions 6–10 pairs; leaflets cut down to the rhachis into 3–5 distant very narrow-linear lobes ¼–¾ in. long with short acicular tips. Umbels few, 1–8, loosely panicled, compound, diœcious; involucral bracts filiform, shorter than the rays. Fruit on very short pedicels, oblong, 18–16 in. long; carpels with 5 narrow wings; styles very short.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 202.
South Island: Canterbury—Upper Waitaki and head of Lake Hawea, Haast! Otago—Lake district, Hector and Buchanan! Kurow, Mount Ida, Cromwell, and other localities in eastern and central Otago, Petrie! 800–3500 ft. December–January.
Closely related to L. Haastii, but a much smaller and more slender plant, with more sparingly divided leaves, smaller fruit, and shorter styles.
8. L. dissectum, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 202.—Rather stout, coriaceous, 5–15 in. high. Rootstock thick, covered with the ragged bases of the old leaves. Radical leaves 3–12 in. long, coriaceous but hardly rigid; petiole half the length or more, with a long and narrow sheath; blade ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 2–3-pinnate; primary pinnae 4–9 pairs, 1–2 in. long; secondary closely placed, ternately or pinnately cut into numerous linear pungent-pointed segments ¼–1 in. long and about 120 wide. Umbels compound, few or many in an open branched panicle; primary rays numerous, 10–20; involucral bracts linear or lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit linear-oblong, 18 in. long; carpels 5-winged.
North Island: Mount Holdsworth and other high peaks of the Tararua Runge, Buchanan! T. P. Arnold! W. Townson! December–February.
An imperfectly known species, perhaps more nearly allied to L. piliferum than to any other, but differing widely in the much more divided leaves.
9. L. filifolium, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 95.—Slender, grassy, very aromatic. Stems 6–20 in. high, smooth, striate, often much branched above. Leaves 4–15 in. long, thin and often flaccid; petioles very long, slender, sheathing at the base, sheaths short and broad, membranous; blade very variable in size and shape, ter-
