Cotula. | COMPOSITE. 353 
purplish-black margins. Receptacle conical. Female florets in 
9-3 series, shortly pedicelled; corolla compressed, swollen at the 
base, contracted towards the mouth, unequally 4-toothed. Disc- 
florets funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes of the female florets 
obovoid ; those of the disc-florets minute, abortive.—Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 323. Leptinella plumosa, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 26, t. 20. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsuANDS: Hooker! Kirk! Chapman! AntTI- 
PopES Istanp: Kirk! Macquarie Istanp: Scott, A. Hamilton. December- 
January. 
A very handsome species, easily recognised by the large pale-green feathery 
foliage. It is also found in Kerguelen Island and the Crozets. 
5. C. lanata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 141.—Stems stout, 
prostrate and rooting below, ascending at the tips, branched, 
3-12in. long, densely clothed with white woolly hairs or 
glabrate. Leaves 1-3in. long, woolly or glabrate, rather thick, 
with broad sheathing petioles; blade oblong in outline, pinnate 
or pinnatifid; pinne close-set, curved, 3—5-toothed or -lobed along 
the upper edge, minutely glandular. Peduncles terminal, shorter 
than the leaves, stout, woolly. Heads +-1in. diam.; involucral 
bracts in several series, broadly oblong, obtuse, green. Florets all 
studded with pellucid conglobate glands; females ovate-oblong, 
broadest at the base, narrow at the mouth and minutely 
4-toothed ; disc-florets narrow funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes 
of the female florets obovate, compressed; those of the disc- 
florets minute, abortive. — Kirk, Students’ Fl. 323. Leptinella 
lanata, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 25, t. 19. Li. propinqua, Hook. /. 
Le. 27. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IstanDs: Hooker, Kirk ! Chapman! Decem- 
ber-January. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the smaller size, stouter habit, leaves 
not so finely cut, smaller heads, and glandular florets. 
6. C. Muelleri, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 324.—Stems long, rather 
stout, creeping and rooting, branched, sparingly villous towards 
the tips; branches ascending. Leaves 2-5 in. long; petiole 3~2 in., 
sheathing at the base; blade 1-8 in., linear-obovate, membranous, 
glabraite or slightly silky, gland-dotted, deeply pinnatifid; segments 
oblong, closely toothed or lobed, teeth acute. Peduncles 1-3 in. 
long, usually shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Heads +in. 
diam, ; involucral bracts in about 3 series, oblong-ovate, obtuse or 
subacute, membranous. Female florets in many rows, usually 
more numerous than the disc-florets; corolla short, ovoid, not 
glandular. Disc-florets larger; corolla tubular, 4-toothed; style 
undivided. Achenes of the female florets clavate, tetragonous.— 
Leptinella potentillina, F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 28, t. 6. 
12—FI. 
