peduncles, ⅓ in. diam.; involucral bracts in about 4 series; the outer shorter, oblong, obtuse, cottony at the base; inner longer, linear-oblong or linear, acute, scarious. Eeceptacle small, convex. Florets numerous; females few, in 1 series. Achene obscurely papillose or puberulous. Pappus-hairs very slender.—Kirk, Students' Flora, 309. Gnaphalium filicaule, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 153.
North and South Islands, Chatham Islands, Stewart Island: Not uncommon in dry grassy places from Rotorua southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. December–February.
4. H. Sinclairii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 153.—"A small subalpine species; stems and branches ascending, leafy, 2–4 in. high. Leaves close-set, spreading, ¼–⅓ in. long, ⅙ in. broad, linear-oblong or obovate-spathulate, obtuse, densely covered with pale cottony tomentum on both surfaces. Heads ¼ in. diam., in numerous rounded terminal dense corymbs ½–1 in. across; peduncles and pedicels short, densely cottony; outer scales of involucre cottony, inner shortly radiating; female florets in 1 series; pappus of few stout hairs, thickened towards the tip. Achene glabrous."—Kirk, Students' Fl. 309.
South Island: Marlborough—Upper Awatere Valley, Sinclair (Handbook).
This has not been observed since its first discovery, nearly fifty years ago. Not having seen specimens, I have reproduced Hooker's description. He compares it with the Tasmanian Raoulia catipes (Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 206, t. 58), but states that the leaves are smaller, the heads not half the size, and much more numerous.
5. H. Youngii, Handb. N.Z. Fl. 152.—Densely tufted, forming broad soft patches ¾–1½ in. high; branches stout, erect, with the leaves ⅓ in. diam. Leaves densely imbricate, erecto-patent or spreading, ⅙–¼ in. long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile by a broad base, densely clothed on both surfaces with soft white or buff cottony tomentum. Heads ⅓–½ in. diam., sessile amongst the terminal leaves; involucral bracts in about 3 series; the outer shorter, woolly and tomentose at the base; the inner longer, linear-oblong, acute, with white radiating tips almost equalling the scarious claw, and much exceeding the florets. Florets numerous, 50–70; about 20–30 females, in 2 series. Achene pubescent. Pappus-hairs few, rigid, brittle, slightly thickened above.—Kirk, Students Fl. 310.
South Island: Canterbury—Mount Torlesse and Mount Cook, Haast! T.F.C. Otago—Lake Hawea, Haast; Lake Wanaka, Buchanan! Mount Pisa, Mount Cardrona, Hector Mountains, Petrie! 4500–6500 ft. January.
This differs from Helichrysum in habit and in the numerous female florets, and would perhaps be more appropriately placed in Raoulia, of which it has the pappus-hairs of the section Imbricaria. In Mr. Kirk's herbarium it is mixed with Raoulia Parkii, the distinguishing characters of which have already been pointed out under the genus Raoulia.
