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Celmisia.]

13. C. Haastii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 131.—Forming large patches. Rhizome creeping, putting up short erect branches. Leaves greenish-grey, 1½–3in. long, ½–1 in. wide, broadly oblong to oblong-spathulate or narrow obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, narrowed towards the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous and usually longitudinally plaited above, beneath clothed with thin whitish tomentum; margins recurved, minutely denticulate; sheaths ⅓–½ as long as the blade, thin, membranous, glabrous. Scapes usually several, 2–6 in. long, stout, densely tomentose or almost glabrous; bracts many, linear, acute or rarely obtuse, tomentose. Heads 1–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute or acuminate, membranous, softly tomentose or almost villous. Rays spreading. Achene linear, glabrous, longer than the pappus.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 284.

14. C. Lindsayi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 132.—Often forming large rounded masses. Stems stout, woody, prostrate; branches numerous, decumbent or suberect. Leaves numerous, crowded, 3–8 in. long, ½–1 in. broad, linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, obscurely and remotely denticulate or quite entire, glabrous above, clothed with appressed white tomentum beneath, midrib evident; sheaths broad, glabrous, deeply grooved. Scapes usually numerous, 2–8 in. long, slender, flexuous, glabrous or pubescent above; bracts linear. Heads 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acuminate, glabrate or pubescent. Ray-florets 30–40, spreading, rather distant. Tube of the disc-florets somewhat thickened; anther-cells obtuse at the base. Achene linear, silky.—''Lindsay, Contrib. N.Z. Bot. 53, t. 3, f. 1; Bot. Mag. t. 7134; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 284. Erigeron Bonplandii, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xix. (1887) 213.