550 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Cotula. 
fruit, on “filiform peduncles. Receptacle thick, convex, almost hemispherical. 
Female florets numerous, in several series, without any corollas ; disk-florets 
much e numerous, the corollas attenuate at the base, the styles apparently 
perfect or more or less abortive. Achenes of the female florets sessile, Gite éi 
Pesca with a broad truncate base; those of the disk abortive.—Gymnogy 
geg Steetz in Pl. Gren i, 432 
oe tralia. Swan River, Drummo 380; Preiss, n. 101; Kalgan and 
Gordon den oem Gregory, Champion Bay, Morchison river, O/dfield. 
5. australis, Hook. f. Fl. N. Z. i.128. Slender and diffuse, with 
an a arently perennial creeping rhizome, more or less clothed with loug soft 
hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves pinnate, E small piunze, entire or deeply 
8-lobed or pinnatifid, the segments mostly mucronate-acute. Flower-heads 
small, on slender peduncles. ote bei linear-oblong. Receptacle 
nearly at. Fem ale florets numerous, e eral rows, without any corollas ; 
„as long as themselves. Achenes of the disk not wig on very short pe- 
dicels.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. SEH -50 A; Anacyclus australis, Sieb. Pl. 
Exs. ; Strongylospermum australe, Less. Syn. Comp. 261; DC. Prod. vi. 82; 
Pleiogyne australis, C. Koch in Bot. Zeit. 1843, 40; Sond. in Linnea, 297 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, to the Blue — a Brown, Sieber, and others, 
apan vagin. hee C. Moore ; Clarence river, Bec. 
Vict r, F. Muelle ler and others ; resi nece Whan. 
eate “Moist tok near Hobarton, J. D. Hoo 
S. Australia. Near Adelaide, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia. Between Bin River and King George s Sound, Drummond. 
The species is also in New Zealand and in the island of Tristan d'Aeunha ; it is ver b 
the common Agjatic and African C. anthemoides, Linn., Vi that s species dei le * 
are usually much shorter, the achenes less stipitate, and tl cer $ 
a short corolla, which I never find in C. australis even on sie ice s specimens, gore i 
scribed by De Candolle, who copied from Lessing. : 
6. C. alpina, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 192. t. 51 A. A small but stout 
glabrous perennial, shortly creeping or tufted. Leaves deeply pinnatifil * or 
pinnate, with oblong-linear acute entire or 2- or 3-toothed segments. eu 
heads, when in fruit, fully 3 lines diameter, on thick hollow peduncles, ofteu 
shorter than the leaves. Involucral bracts ovate-oblong. Receptacle flat or 
of the female florets sessile, bordered by rather oe wings, those of the 
ser eei abortive. —Ctenosperma alpinun, Hook. fi. Ho uy Lond. Journ. 
Victoria. Cobberas mountains; F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Subalpine and alpine ce near Marlborough, Gunn. 
Section II. LEPTINELLA.— Receptacle conical. Achenes of the ray! ` 
several Losch sessile. Female florets with a short corolla. 
7. C. Drummondii, Benth. A perennial, with prostrate 0r ere d 
