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Gnaphalium.] 1. G. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 137.—Stems 1–2 ft. high, stout, branched, decumbent or prostrate at the woody base, then erect, cottony above. Leaves close-set or the upper remote, spreading, 2–4 in. long, ¼–¾ in. broad, narrow oblong-lanceolate or narrow obovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to a sessile base, membranous, glabrous above, beneath clothed with thinly appressed white tomentum and distinctly 3-nerved, Heads rather large, ½ in. diam., disposed in many-flowered terminal corymbs 2–4 in. across; pedicels cottony. Involucral bracts numerous, scarious, white, radiating, with short woolly claws. Female florets very numerous, disc-florets much fewer. Achene linear-oblong, smooth, glabrous. Pappus-hairs few, very slender.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 152; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 297. G. adhærens, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvii. (1885) 244.

2. G. trinerve, Forst. Prodr. n. 289.—Stems 1–2 ft. long, rather slender, sparingly branched, prostrate or decumbent, glabrate below, more or less white and cottony above. Leaves distant, spreading or deflexed, ½–1 in. long, obovate-lanceolate or spathulate, broadest towards the tip, acute or apiculate, gradually narrowed to a broad base, glabrous above and faintly 3-nerved, white with appressed wool beneath. Heads in corymbs of 3 to 10 or solitary, terminating the branches, which are produced into slender cottony bracteate peduncles, ½–¾ in. diam. Involucral bracts numerous, white, radiating, the outer woolly at the base. Achene linearoblong, glabrous. Pappus-hairs few, slender.—''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 239; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 455; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 138; Handb. N.Z. Fl. i. 153; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 297.

3. G. Keriense, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 454.—Stems short or long, prostrate or decumbent, with numerous erect or ascending leafy branches 3–9 in. long, cottony above. Leaves spreading,