Myosotis traversii Hook.f. var. traversii
M. cockayniana Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 45, 1913, 269.
M. traversii var. cockayniana (Petrie) Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 752.
Type locality: West Amuri County. Type: K, Discovery Peaks, 5500 ft., Travers.
Lf-hairs long, overlapping but not appressed, those on undersurface of rosette-lvs shorter, sparser, finer and regularly retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong with rounded tips, without hooked hairs. Infl. us. capitate even in fr.
DIST.: S. Mountains of Nelson, Marlborough, and North Canterbury. Scree and shingly places.
FL. (12)-1-3. FT. 2-4.
The type of M. cockayniana is from the upper Awatere Valley, W 2603 "Shingle-slip on Shingly Range at 1450 m. alt. L. Cockayne 27 Dec. 1911"; this gathering, represented also in Herb. Cockayne, is at a very early stage of flowering, and Petrie therefore was uncertain about the scales on the corolla-tube, and described the infl. as strongly congested and sunk amongst uppermost lvs.
