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302 involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, glandular and silky, margins often scarious. Rays numerous, narrow, ⅓ in. long. Achene linear, silky.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 281.

6. C. holosericea, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 36.—Leaves all radical, spreading, 6–12 in. long, 1½–2½ in. broad, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with thin appressed white tomentum beneath, midrib and principal veins distinct on both surfaces; margins flat, distantly acutely serrate; petiole broadly sheathing, glabrous, smooth and shining, grooved. Scapes few, 1–2 ft. long, slender, glabrous; bracts usually several, 1–1½ in. long, linear, wiiite beneath. Heads large, 2–3 in. diam. or more; involucral bracts in several series, sometimes 1 in. long; inner narrow-linear, glabrous, usually viscid; outer broader, lanceolate, tomentose on the back. Ray-florets very numerous, with long narrow ligules. Achene pilose.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 121, t. 31; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 130; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 282. Aster holosericeus, ''Forst. Prodr. n. 296; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 248; A. Cunn. Prodr.'' n. 438.

7. C. Dallii, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 355, t. 35.—Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, 4–8 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute or apiculate, narrowed to the base and then expanded into a broad grooved membranous sheathing petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above, clothed with appressed pale-buff tomentum beneath; margins flat, sharply minutely serrate. Scapes 1–6, 6–18 in. long, rather stout, glabrous; bracts usually numerous, large, 1–2 in. long, leafy, clothed with buff tomentum beneath, usually several are aggregated under the head, forming a spurious involucre. Heads large, 1½–2½ in. diam.; involucral bracts in several series, narrow-linear; inner cottony, outer slightly tomentose, viscid. Rays numerous, rather narrow. Achene pilose.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 282.