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304 many, linear, 1–2 in. long. Heads 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts very numerous, in many series, linear-subulate, glabrous or pubescent, viscid; tips recurved. Eays long and narrow, twisted when withering. Achene narrow-linear, equalling the pappus, silky, strongly ribbed.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 282.

11. C. discolor, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 123.—Stems branched below; branches short or long, prostrate or suberect, usually densely clothed with the old persistent leaves. Leaves crowded, imbricating, very variable in size and shape, 1–2½ in. long, ¼–½ in. wide, oblong-spathulate to linear, obtuse or acute, entire or serrulate, very coriaceous to almost membranous, viscid, glabrous or hoary above, clothed with appressed white tomentum beneath, broad or narrow at the base, sometimes almost petiolate; sheaths ⅓–½ as long as the blade, glabrous. Scapes 1 or several, 2–8 in. long, very slender, viscid and glandular-pubescent; bracts usually several, linear-subulate. Heads ¾–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linearsubulate, viscid, usually glandular-pubescent, outer with recurved tips. Rays narrow, spreading. Achene silky.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 131; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 283. Erigeron novæ-zealandiæ, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvii. (1885) 287, t. 15.

12. C. incana, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 123, t. 34a.—Rhizome prostrate; branches short, stout, densely clothed with the old persistent leaves. Leaves numerous, crowded, 1–2½ in. long, ½–¾ in. broad, oblong-spathulate or obovate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, entire or minutely serrulate, plaited or furrowed above, both surfaces or the lower alone thickly coated with lax snow-white soft tomentum; sheaths ½ as long as the blade, thin and membranous, grooved, glabrous or slightly cottony. Scapes 1–3, stout, 3–9 in. high, tomentose; bracts many, linear. Heads ¾–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glandular-pubescent and viscid; the outer often recurved. Rays numerous, spreading. Achene linear, silky, about equalling the pappus.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 131; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 284. C. robusta. ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xix. (1887) 215, t. 18.