Cotula. | COMPOSIT (Hary.) 177 
Var. a, filifolia; leaves filiform-subulate, quite entire, slender. 
Var. 8. majuscula; leaves pinnati-partite, few lobed, or trifid. . majuscul 
Hove, tn Hh. BE wad Dee oe deen 
Haz. Sandy fields near the sea, in wet spots. Riet Valley and Greenpoint, Ecklon/ 
8. Greenpoint and Camp’s Bay, Pappe! Cape Flats, W.H.H. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Annual, very variable in size, 1-6 inches high, slender or robust, simple or branched 
from the base, the young parts appressedly hispid, older glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
in a quite simple; in 8 more or less pinnate-parted. Sheaths of the leaves ciliate. 
Iny. glabrous, the outer scales few, inner either few or many, according to the size 
of the head, which varies from 14 to 4-5 lines diameter. Disc-fl. mostly fertile; 
ray-fl. often abortive. 
LXXI. COTULA, Gaertn. 
Heads many-fl., discoid, heterogamous or rarely homogamous ; mar- 
ginal fl. in one or several rows, female, either without corolla or with a 
2-toothed or filiform one; disc-fl. with a flattened or winged tube, some- 
times shortly 2-eared at base, and a 4-lobed limb. ecepé. flat, often 
papillate, without palee. Jn. 2—3-seriate, of few or several, subequal, 
blunt scales. Achenes plano-compressed, often wing-margined, glabrous 
or hispid, without pappus ; those of the ray mostly stipitate, of the dise 
narrower, less winged, and often subsessile. DC. Prodr.6,p.77. Stron- 
gylosperma, Less. Pleiogyne, Koch. in Bot. Zeit. t, p. 40. 
Small branching annuals, or rarely perennials, chiefly African, but found also in 
the warmer parts of the temperate zone. Leaves rarely opposite, or spuriously 
whorled, often sheathing at the base, toothed, incised or pinnatisect, with narrow 
lobes. Branches ending in naked, 1-headed peduncles. Heads small, hemispheri- 
cal, yellow. Name from corvAn, a cup; the involucres are somewhat cuplike. Of 
several species I have seen either no specimen or very imperfect ones; some are 
ill-defined, and probably to be rejected on further examination. 
( I. Evcoruta. Marginal female flowers few, either in 1, or very rarely in 2 rows. 
Sp. 1-16). 
Leaves opposite, sheathing, multipartite; lobes filiform ... (1) myriophylloides. 
Leaves alternate, sheathing at base (glabrous) : 
Lys. fiat, toothed or cut ; inv. scales linear _..._ .... (2) coronopifolia, 
Lvs. ecg ete narrow; inv. se. ovate-oblong ... (3) pusilla, 
Lvs. linear, quite entire; inv. sc. ovate-oblong : 
Pedine. Sitter; note sas ees ss. (4) Alifollia. 
Pedune. leafy nearly to the summit ... ... .... (5) bracteolata. 
Leaves alternate, clasping or scarcely clasping, pinnatisect : 
Glabrescent or sparsely hispid : 
Lf£.-base wide, toothed, clasping ; lobes rigid, pungent (6) bipinnata. 
Lé.-base scarcely half-clasping ; lobes flaccid, not pungent: 
Leaves simply or sub-simply pinnatisect : 
Peduncles nude, long, slender : 
Diffusely branched ; leaf-lobes few, 
ERNIE WE roses ate ae 7) laxa, 
Dwarf, with radical leaves; lobes 
narrow, thickish ... .. ... (13) Teesdaliz. 
Ped. bearing a few linear, undivided leaves: 
Erect, glabrous ; lobes in 7-8 pairs (14) pterocarpa. 
Many-stemmed, branching, sparsel 
i (11) tenella. 
Leaves bipinnatisect ; upper lobes pinnulate (10) multifida. 
Pilose or villous (copiously or more thinly) : 
Leaves bipinnatisect, or partially so: 
Thinly pilose ; inv. scales broad. 
Diffusely branched, 3-4 inches long .,. (8) sororia. 
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