Chatham Islands: Not uncommon in moist places, H. H. Travers! Enys! Cockayne and Cox!
This was apparently referred to C. lanata by Sir J. D. Hooker (Handb., p. 733), but it differs from that plant in being much less woolly, in the larger leaves with broader toothed segments, longer peduncles, and glandless florets.
7. C. Traillii, T. Kirk, Students Fl. 324.—Stems slender, creeping and rooting, 3–12 in. long, silky towards the tips. Leaves 1–3 in.; petiole slender, sheathing at the base; blade linear-obovate, membranous, glabrate or with scattered lax hairs on both surfaces, deeply pinnatifid; segments close-set, broadly oblong, toothed on the upper margin and round the apex, teeth apiculate or hair-tipped. Peduncles axillary, pubescent, usually shorter than the leaves. Heads ⅓ in. diam., involucral bracts in 2–3 series, orbicular-ovate, membranous, with scarious purplish margins. Female florets few, in 1 series, shortly stipitate; corolla ovoid, compressed. Disc-florets very numerous, funnel-shaped, 4-lobed; style undivided, with a discoid stigma. Achenes of the female florets broadly ovoid or almost orbicular, turgid, 3-winged.
Stewart Island: Chiefly on sand-dunes, Kirk! December–February.
Very closely allied to C. Muelleri, of which it may be a variety. The habit is the same, and the leaves can only be distinguished by the smaller size and apiculate segments. But the heads are markedly different in the few female florets, which are in one row only, and have much broader achenes.
8. C. Maniototo, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 362.—Small, densely matted, forming broad greyish patches; everywhere covered with long silky hairs. Stems ½–3 in. long, creeping and rooting; branches very short, leafy. Leaves numerous, silky on both surfaces, dilated and sheathing at the base, ⅙–⅓ in. long, linear-oblong, deeply pinnatifid; segments narrow-linear, acute. Heads terminating the branches, almost sessile, minute, 110–18 in. diam.; involucral bracts in 2 series, broadly oblong or obovate, obtuse, silky on the outside, membranous. Female florets in 1 or 2 series; corolla narrow-tubular, almost filiform, with a 2-lipped mouth; style exserted, 2-fid. Disc-florets much larger; corolla funnel-shaped with a long tube, 4–5-toothed; anthers and style exserted. Achenes of the female florets oblong, smooth and turgid, hardly winged; those of the disc-florets minute, abortive.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 323.
South Island: Canterbury—Lake Lyndon, Enys! Kirk! T.F.C.; Lake Tekapo, T.F.C. Otago—Kakanui, Maniototo Plain, Nevis Valley, Mossburn, Lake Te Anau, Petrie! Buchanan! Sea-level to 3000 ft. January–February.
A very distinct little plant, probably common throughout the South Island.
9. C. minor, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 142.—Stems slender, creeping, branched, 2–12 in. long or more, glabrous or silky at the
