long, white, spreading, ¾–1 in. long. Disc-florets with a campanulate 5-toothed limb. Achenes linear, grooved, glabrous, slightly expanded and thickened at the tip. Pappus-hairs rigid, scabrid.—S. glastifolius, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 147, t. 39; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161 (not of Linn. f.). Solidago arborescens, A. Cunn. Prodr. n. 435 (not of Forst.).
North Island: Common in hilly and wooded districts from the North Cape to Wellington. Sea-level to 2500 ft.
A very remarkable and beautiful species. The flower-heads are often so abundantly produced as to conceal the leaves, the multitude of snow-white rays then rendering the plant conspicuous from afar. In the northern forests it is often epiphytic on the distorted trunks of the rata (Metrosideros robusta).
14. S. myrianthos, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1875) 348.—A small sparingly branched shrub 3–12 ft. high; bark black; branches slender, when young clothed with thin buff tomentum. Leaves 3–7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually unequal and often slightly cordate at the base, sharply and coarsely doubly dentate, thin and membranous, glabrous above when mature, beneath clothed with silvery-white appressed tomentum, veins reticulated; petioles slender, 1–2 in. long. Panicles large, terminal, often more than 2 ft. long; peduncles and pedicels slender, everywhere densely covered with short spreading purplish-brown glandular hairs; lower bracts often foliaceous, upper subulate. Heads numerous, ⅓ in. long, obconic; involucral bracts about 8, linear-oblong, obtuse, membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Ray-florets 4-6, white; ligules very short and broad, ⅛ in. long. Discflorets about 6; limb narrow-campanulate, 5-toothed. Achenes oblong, grooved, minutely hispidulous. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, minutely scabrid.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 346. S. Cheesemanii, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant. t. 1201.
North Island: Ravines on the Cape Colville Peninsula, from Coromandel to Tairua and Waitekauri, T. F. C, Adams! Sea-level to 750 ft. November–December.
A handsome and distinct species, well characterized by the membranous leaves, large elongated panicles, and small white ray-florets. The flowers are deliciously sweet-scented.
15. S. sciadophilus, Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. iii. 2 (1844) 119.—A slender climbing shrub 3–15 ft. high; branches flexuose, often pendent, striate, clothed with short pubescence. Leaves distant, spreading, 1–2 in. long; blade about half the length, orbicular or orbicular-ovate, coarsely toothed, membranous, clothed on both surfaces with short scattered hairs or glabrate; veins reticulated. Heads ⅓ in. diam., in few-flowered axillary or terminal corymbs, often forming an elongated terminal panicle; pedicels slender, pubescent. Involucre campanulate; bracts few, 6–8, linear-oblong, subacute; margins scarious. Ray-florets 4–7; ligule
