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128 straight, villous below, glabrous and hooked at the tip, much longer than the achene.—''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' ii. 263; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 56; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 55; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 129.

3. G. sericeum, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 129.—"Pubescent, silky or villous in all its parts. Leaves all radical, ¾–1 in. long including the petiole; terminal segment orbicular-cordate or reniform, minutely lobed or crenate-toothed, pubescent and rugose beneath, silky above; lateral leaflets minute or wanting. Scape strict, downy, 2–4 in. high, with 1–3 toothed bracts. Flowers few, small, white, racemose or solitary and terminal. Calyx-tube open, silky; segments narrow, ovate, subacute; bractlets short, ovate. Petals slightly exceeding the calyx, retuse. Receptacle glabrous. Achenes stipitate, obliquely ovate, villous, compressed; style much shorter than the achene, hooked at the tip. Heads not spreading."—Sieversia albiflora, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 9, t. 7.

4. G. uniflorum, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' ii. (1870) 88.—Rootstock creeping, stout and woody, clothed with the reddish bases of the old leaves and stipules. Leaves all radical, 1–3 in. long; terminal leaflet large, ¾–1 in. diam., oblong- or rounded-reniform, obscurely lobed, deeply crenate-toothed; margins densely ciliated; surfaces with a few sparse long hairs or almost glabrous; lateral leaflets 1–2 pairs, minute, deeply toothed and ciliated. Scapes 3–6 in. high, slender, pubescent or villous; bracts 1–2, small, narrow, entire or toothed. Flower solitary, large, white, ¾–1¼ in. diam. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, villous with long hairs. Petals large, broadly obovate or almost orbicular. Achenes villous with long hairs, gradually narrowed into a very long style hooked at the tip.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 129.

5. G. leiospermum, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxvi. (1894) 2 7.—Small, slender, 3–6 in. high, silky or villous in all its parts. Radical leaves rosulate, spreading, 1–2 in. long, pinnate; terminal leaflet ⅓–¾ in. diam., broadly ovate or rounded, sometimes obscurely lobed, closely and unequally sharply toothed; lateral leaflets