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DISCOVERY OF AIUA ULIGINOSA IN GALWAY. 265
than in involucratum, but not more acute at tip. Younger leaves as in
that species, sometimes very obscurely cottony [with very fine appressed
down] above ; generally glabrous. Bracts as in involucratum, scarcely
more foliaceous.
3. G. involucratum, Forst. Eoadsides near Kaikorai Mill and
throughout the Greenisland district ; December, in flower, W. L. L.
Sometimes spreading and densely tufted ;
these smaller forms gene-
rally more leafy than taller, erect ones. Stems flexuose ; mostly under
1 ft. high. Whole plant cottony ; smaller forms more so than the
taller. Leaf variable as to form and size. Radical leaves sometimes
nearly 3 in. long and \ in. broad, tapering into a naiTow petiole, about
\\ in. long. Form of leaf spathulate. Upper or stem leaves sessile
and linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate. Upper surface of leaf some-
times dark olive-brown, shining and wrinkled, subglabrous ;
sometimes
dries a blackish-green. Margin frequently revolute. Inflorescence
about -J in. or upwards in diameter. Head about \ in. long.
4., G. luteo-album, L. Among " scrub," on roadsides about Caver-
sham, Dunedin, 15 in. high; sand dunes. Ocean Beach and Forbury
Head, dwarf, tufted form, 6 in. tall ; December, in flower, W. L. L.
Generally about 1 ft. high. Cottony tomentum, as usual, most
abundant and prominent on under side of young leaves, stem-shoots,
and capitula. Proceeding upwards from base to stem, the leaves which
clothe the latter are spathulate-oblong to linear ; subpetiolate below,
sessile above, as is common in the genera Gnaplialiam, ErecMites, and
Se7iecio. Capitula about ^-f in. in diameter.
5. G. trinerve, Forst. Sand dunes about mouth of the Kaikorai,
abundant, W. L. L.
DISCOVERY OF MRJ ULIGINOSA, Weihe, AT ROUND-
STONE, CO. GALWAY.
By Alexander G. More, Esq., F.L.S.
Another plant is to be added to the botanical rarities of Roundstone.
"When looking for Naias Jlexilis, I noticed a Grass very like Aira
fexuosa. From the nature of the locality, and the appearance of the
plant, I felt no doubt from the first that I had found A. iiUginosa,
and I am glad to say that my friend Professor C. C. Babington quite
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