Cotula.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 179 
Pr 7 sy places, Zwartland, Thunberg/ a. and 8., Greenpoint, Ecklon! (Hb. 
Thunberg’s specimens in his Herbarium are about 2 inches high; DC. has seen 
one 6 inches, The fl.-heads are 2-3 lines diam. ‘The iny.-scales resemble those of 
C. filifolia ; the leaves those of C. coronopifolia ; from both which the hispid achenes 
separate this species. 
4, C, filifolia (Thunb.! Cap. 696); glabrous, erect or decumbent ; 
leaves linear or filiform, quite entire, shortly sheathing at base, the 
sheath ciliate or bearded ; pedune. slender, naked ; inv.-seales broadly 
ovate, very obtuse ; ray-fl. uniseriate, stipitate. DC.1¢.77. Zey. 838. 
Var. 8. decumbens; decumbent, stems rooting from the lower nodes; leaves 
broader and flatter, their sheaths more bearded. (C. barbellata, Fenzl! 
Has. Wet spots, in sandy places, about Capetown, &c., Th.! Drege, BE. § Z.t 
W. H. H., gc. (Hb. Th., Sd., D., Hk.) 
A small, slender annual, 2-6 inches high, including the peduncle. Leaves 1-14 
inch long, not half a line wide. Also a native of Pt. Phillip, Australia, Dr. F. 
Mueller! Var. B., from very wet spots (Dr. Wallich! FE. § Z.!) is of much stronger 
pa resembling some states of C. coronopifolia, but easily known by its broad 
inyol,-scales. 
5. C. bracteolata (E. Mey.); ‘* glabrous, sub-decumbent ; leaves 
sheathing at base, linear, thickish, quite entire, obtuse ; fl.-branches 
bearing smaller leaves nearly to the fl.-heads ; inv.-scales ovate, obtuse, 
hyaline at point.” DC.l.c. p. 78. C. integrifolia, Burch. Trav. 1. p. 617 
Has. Paarden Eyland, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
6. C. bipinnata (Th.! Cap. 696); sparingly pilose, at length glabrous, 
branching, erect ; leaves with a wide, half-clasping, inciso-dentate base, 
pinnati-partite, the lobes linear-subulate, rigid, pungent-mucronate, 
either pungently few-toothed, or entire; pedunc. short, one-headed ; 
ray-fl. uniseriate, shortly stipitate ; invol.-scales numerous, oblong, mem- 
brane-tipped, obtuse. Jess./ Syn. p. 261. C. oxyodonta, DC./ lL. ¢. 78. 
C. tenella, B. M.! ex pte. DC. 1. c. 80. 
Has. Swartland, Piquet Berg and Verloren Valley, Thunberg/ At the Paarl, 
= tbs mer tase a aoe igid than most, the larger specimens very much 
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branched. Leaves about uncial, maa neryed, with reflexed edges, all ther lobes 
remarkably acute, and often hook-pointed. Pedunc. scarcely 1 inch long, bearing 
a small leaf or two. Heads 2-3 lines diameter. Thunberg’s specimens are much 
larger and more branching than Drege’s, but in all other respects identical. Drege’s 
specimens of “ (. tenella” marked “ b” belong to this (Hb. D., Hk.) ; those marked 
‘© 9” are retained as a species ; see next page. 
7. C. laxa (DC.! L ec. 78); sparsely pilose or sub-glabrous, diffuse, 
slender ; leaves scarcely half-clasping at base, the lowest petiolate, the 
upper sub-sessile, all pinnati-partite, the lobes broadly linear or oblong, 
veiny, mucronate, the lateral in few and distant pairs or alternate, ter- 
minal 3-5 together; pedunce. filiform, elongate ; inv.-scales about ro, 
ovate-oblong, shorter than disc, membrane-edged; ray-fl. uniseriate, 
stipitate. 
Has. Zilverfontein, 2-3000 f. Drege/ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very slender and weak-growing. Leaves pale green, 1-14 inch long, their lobes 
2-3 lines long, 1 line wide. Heads not 2 lines diameter. Disc-fl. plano-compressed, 
widely winged ; ray-fl. without corolla. 5 
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