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Senecio.] long, white, spreading, ¾–1 in. long. Disc-florets with a campanulate 5-toothed limb. Achenes linear, grooved, glabrous, slightly expanded and thickened at the tip. Pappus-hairs rigid, scabrid.—S. glastifolius, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 147, t. 39; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 161 (not of Linn. f.)''. Solidago arborescens, ''A. Cunn. Prodr. n. 435 (not of Forst.)''.

14. S. myrianthos, ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' vii. (1875) 348.—A small sparingly branched shrub 3–12 ft. high; bark black; branches slender, when young clothed with thin buff tomentum. Leaves 3–7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually unequal and often slightly cordate at the base, sharply and coarsely doubly dentate, thin and membranous, glabrous above when mature, beneath clothed with silvery-white appressed tomentum, veins reticulated; petioles slender, 1–2 in. long. Panicles large, terminal, often more than 2 ft. long; peduncles and pedicels slender, everywhere densely covered with short spreading purplish-brown glandular hairs; lower bracts often foliaceous, upper subulate. Heads numerous, ⅓ in. long, obconic; involucral bracts about 8, linear-oblong, obtuse, membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Ray-florets 4-6, white; ligules very short and broad, ⅛ in. long. Discflorets about 6; limb narrow-campanulate, 5-toothed. Achenes oblong, grooved, minutely hispidulous. Pappus-hairs in 1 series, minutely scabrid.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 346. S. Cheesemanii, ''Hook. f. in Ic. Plant.'' t. 1201.

15. S. sciadophilus, ''Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser.'' iii. 2 (1844) 119.—A slender climbing shrub 3–15 ft. high; branches flexuose, often pendent, striate, clothed with short pubescence. Leaves distant, spreading, 1–2 in. long; blade about half the length, orbicular or orbicular-ovate, coarsely toothed, membranous, clothed on both surfaces with short scattered hairs or glabrate; veins reticulated. Heads ⅓ in. diam., in few-flowered axillary or terminal corymbs, often forming an elongated terminal panicle; pedicels slender, pubescent. Involucre campanulate; bracts few, 6–8, linear-oblong, subacute; margins scarious. Ray-florets 4–7; ligule