diam.; involucral bracts in about 3 rows, linear, acute, with scarious margins, keeled, midrib distinct, often tipped with purple. Achenes oblanceolate, compressed, with a rather long beak and thin margins."
South Island: Otago—Catlin's River, Kirk!
This appears to be founded on three immature specimens in Mr. Kirk's herbarium, and in the absence of additional information I have reproduced his description. It is probably nothing more than a large state of L. petiolata.
5. L. pinnatifida, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 126.—Softly hairy or pilose in all its parts. Leaves all radical, spreading, 1–3 in. long, narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-spathulate, obtuse at the tip, narrowed into a long broad petiole, membranous, deeply crenatelobed or almost pinnatifid; margins ciliate. Scapes 3–10 in. long, slender. Heads ¼–½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute, pubescent. Ray-florets numerous; ligules narrow, revolute. Achenes compressed, obliquely linear-obovate, narrowed to the base, suddenly contracted at the tip into a short straight neck, more or less glandular-pubescent; margins thickened.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 137; Kirk, Students Fl. 258.
North Island: Auckland, Sinclair; sandhills near Helensville, T. F. C.; East Cape, Colenso! South Island: Nelson-Wairau Valley, Kirk! T. F. C.; Marlborough, Rough! Canterbury, Sinclair and Haast; Upper Waimakariri, T.F.C.; Otago, Lindsay, Buchanan! Petrie! Sea-level to over 2000ft. December–January.
6. L. lanata, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 437.—Root-fibres stout, fleshy, almost tuberous. Leaves numerous, all radical, densely tufted, 1–1½ in. long, oblong- or obovate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a rather short broad petiole, coriaceous, coarsely and irregularly crenate-dentate, both surfaces hirsute or villous with copious soft hairs. Scapes 2–7 in. long, slender, wiry, erect, glabrous or nearly so, naked or with a few minute linear bracts. Heads ¼–⅓ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, purple-tipped; margins scarious. Ray-florets numerous; ligules short, revolute. Achenes quite smooth, slightly falcate, compressed, narrowed at the base, suddenly contracted at the top into a short curved neck; margins thickened.—Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 126; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 137; Kirk, Students Fl. 258.
North Island: Dry clay hills from Mongonui southwards to the Auckland Isthmus; not common.
Easily distinguished by the hirsute leaves and glabrous scapes and achenes.
3. BRACHYCOME, Cass.
Small perennial herbs; either tufted with radical leaves and 1-headed scapes, or the stems branched, elongated, and clothed with alternate cauline leaves. Heads heterogamous, usually radiate. Involucre hemispherical or nearly so; bracts in about 2 series, with scarious margins. Receptacle convex or conical,
