238 COMPOSITiE. 



Peduncles slender /^ to I inch, often in terminal unequal 

 pairs. Heads % inch : bracts broad, smooth, three or 

 more nerved. Achenes wedge-shaped with a ring of 

 about ten oblanceolate feathery scales. 



Nilgiris : as a weed at Ootacamund. Not previously recorded 

 from South India and no specimen from here at Kew. Fyson 

 2849. 



Gen, Dist, A weed from America now distributed in South Africa, New 

 Zealand, Himalayas and in Great Britain. 



COTULA. F.B.I. LXiii. 



Small herbs with alternate pinnately cut leaves, and 

 small, long stalked, unrayed flower-heads, characterised 

 by the achenes being stalked. 



Species 40 in temperate and tropical climates. 



Cotula australis Hook. f. ; LXIII 4. Stem and 

 branches 2j^ to 4 inches. Leaves % inch pinnatisect into 

 linear segments. Heads Ye inch, on leafless continua- 

 tion of the branches : outer involucral bracts oblong 

 obtuse, one-nerved, with broad scarious margin : recep- 

 tacle naked but for the persistent cylindrical scales of 

 the outer florets. Achenes obovate, winged, tubercled, 

 notched at the top. 



Weed. A native of Australia and New Zealand, probably 

 introduced with garden seed. Fyso^i 3035. Bourne 26. 



ARTEMESI A. f.b.i. 78 Lxxii. 

 Mugwort, Southernwood, Wormwood, Absinth. 

 Herbs or at times shrubby plants, usually highly 

 aromatic, with alternate leaves, usually much divided and 

 often white underneath, and small round flower-heads set 

 in slender spikes, which form large leafy panicles. 

 Involucral bracts round, scarious-margined. Receptacle 

 without scales. No ray-florets. Achenes minute and 

 without pappus. 



