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Gnaphalium.] florets very numerous, with a few hermaphrodite ones in the centre. Achene puberulous or glabrous. Pappus-hairs copious, very fine, connate at the base.—''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 655; Kirk, Students' Fl. 299.

6. G. paludosum, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1890) 441.—Very slender, solitary or tufted, 1–2 in. high. Leaves all radical, petiolate, ⅓–1½ in. long, narrow linear-spathulate; blade half the length or nearly so, acute or subacute, rather membranous, glabrous or slightly silky above, beneath clothed with white appressed tomentum; midrib prominent; margins flat or slightly recurved. Scapes few, hardly exceeding the leaves in the flowering stage, but elongating in fruit, very slender, almost capillary, cottony; bracts few, small, linear. Head solitary, terminal, $1⁄5$ in. diam.; involucral bracts few, scarious, pale and glistening, darker at the tips, inner linear, glabrous. Female florets very numerous. Achene linear-oblong, papillose. Pappus-hairs very delicate, connate at the base.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 299. G. minutulum, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1890) 472.

7. G. nitidulum, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 154.—"A small densely tufted species, covered with appressed silky shining yellowish tomentum. Leaves closely imbricated at their bases, above spreading, flat, ⅓ in. long, linear, obtuse; lower ⅓ membranous, glabrous, upper ⅔ densely silky. Heads terminal, solitary, large, ½ in. broad, on very short slender peduncles; involucral scales in 2 series, erect, linear, hyaline, shining, with pale erect tips; florets not seen."—Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 299.

"Nelson Mountains, Sinclair; Clarence and Wairau Valleys, alt. 3500 ft., Travers."