354 COMPOSITE. [Cotula. 
CuHaTHam I[stanps: Not uncommon in moist places, H. H. Travers! 
Einys! Cockayne and Cox ! 
This was apparently referred to C. lanata by Sir J. D. Hooker (Handb., 
p. 733), but it differs from that plant in being much less woolly, in the 
larger leaves with broader toothed segments, longer peduncles, and glandless 
florets. 
7. C. Traillii, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 324.—Stems slender, 
creeping and rooting, 3-12 in. long, silky towards the tips. Leaves 
1-8in.; petiole slender, sheathing at the base; blade linear-obo- 
vate, membranous, glabrate or with scattered lax hairs on both 
surfaces, deeply pinnatifid; segments close-set, broadly oblong, 
toothed on the upper margin and round the apex, teeth apicu- 
late or hair-tipped. Peduncles axillary, pubescent, usually shorter 
than the leaves. Heads tin. diam., involucral bracts in 2-3 
series, orbicular-ovate, membranous, with scarious purplish mar- 
gins. Female florets few, in 1 series, shortly stipitate; corolla 
ovoid, compressed. Disc-florets very numerous, funnel-shaped, 
4-lobed; style undivided, with a discoid stigma. Achenes of the 
female florets broadly ovoid or almost orbicular, turgid, 3-winged. 
Stewart Isuanp: Chiefly on sand-dunes, Kirk ! December—February. 
Very closely allied to C. Muelleri, of which it may bea variety. The habit 
is the same, and the leaves can only be distinguished by the smaller size and 
apiculate segments. But the heads are markedly different in the few female 
florets, which are in one row only, and have much broader achenes. 
8. C. Maniototo, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 362.— 
Small, densely matted, forming broad greyish patches; everywhere 
covered with long silky hairs. Stems 4-3in. long, creeping and 
rooting; branches very short, leafy. Leaves numerous, silky on 
both surfaces, dilated and sheathing at the base, 44 in. long, linear- 
oblong, deeply pinnatifid; segments narrow-linear. acute. Heads 
terminating the branches, almost sessile, minute, ~,-41in. diam. ; 
involucral bracts in 2 series, broadly oblong or obovate, obtuse, 
silky on the outside, membranous. Female florets in 1 or 2 series ; 
corolla narrow-tubular, almost filiform, with a 2-lipped mouth; 
style exserted, 2-fid. Disc-florets much larger; corolla funnel- 
shaped with a long tube, 4—5-toothed; anthers and style exserted. 
Achenes of the female florets oblong, smooth and turgid, hardl 
winged; those of the disc-florets minute, abortive.—Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 323. 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Lake Lyndon, Enys! Kirk! T. F.C. ; Lake 
Tekapo, 7. #. C. Otago—Kakanui, Maniototo Plain, Nevis Valley, Moss- 
burn, Lake Te Anau, Petrie! Buchanan ! Sea-level to 3000 ft. January— 
February. 
A very distinct little plant, probably common throughout the South Island. 
9. ©. minor, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 142.—Stems slender, 
creeping, branched, 2-12 in. long or more, glabrous or silky at the 
