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Senecio.] ½–1 in. diam., yellow; involucral bracts glandular and tomentose. Rays ¼–½ in. long, spreading. Achenes linear, glabrous.—Choix, 21, t. 17; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 143; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 158; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 338.

2. S. bellidioides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 144.—Very similar to S. lagopus, but smaller and more slender. Leaves all radical, spreading; blade ¾–4 in. long, broadly oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, rounded or slightly cordate at the base or narrowed into the petiole, membranous or subcoriaceous, entire or crenulate, upper surface rugose or almost flat, more or less covered with short stiff bristles, beneath glabrate or sparingly clothed with white or brownish tomentum; petioles long or short, usually woolly. Scapes 1–12 in. high, simple or branched, cottony or glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrate; bracts few, small, acute. Heads 1 to many, ½–1 in. diam.; involucral bracts tomentose or glabrate. Achenes linear, glabrous.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 159; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 338. S. Traversii, ''F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb.'' vii. (1861) 154.

3. S. Haastii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 159.—Rootstock stout or slender, more or less clothed at the top with soft whitish wool. Leaves all radical; blade 2–5 in. long, broadly oblong or orbicular-oblong, obtuse at the tip, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, subcoriaceous, obscurely crenulate, both surfaces covered with soft white lax or appressed tomentum, or the upper surface hoary-tomentose or almost glabrate; petioles slender, 2–6 in. long, white and cottony. Scapes slender, 5–15 in. high, simple or branched, cottony and slightly glandular; pedicels long, slender; bracts few, linear or linear-obovate. Heads 1–8, ¾–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear-oblong, subacute, white and cottony. Achenes narrow-linear, glabrous.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 339.