Cotula.| COMPOSITE. 355 
tips. Leaves alternate on slender creeping runners or fascicled on 
short lateral branchlets, thin and membranous, glabrous or slightly 
silky, 4-2 in. long, linear-oblong or linear-obovate in outline, pin- 
natifid almost to the base; segments close-set or the lower distant, 
oblong or obovoid, recurved, deeply and acutely toothed on both 
edges or on the upper only. Peduncles slender, naked, shorter or 
longer than the leaves. Heads small, 4-Lin. diam.; involucral 
bracts few, 8-12, broadly oblong or orbicular, usually with broad 
purplish margins. Female florets in 3-4 series; corolla inflated, 
broadly ovoid, with a narrow 2-3-toothed mouth. Disc-florets fewer 
in number, funnel-shaped, 4-toothed. Achenes of the female florets 
obovoid, glandular.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 324. Leptinella minor, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 129. Soliva tenella, A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 445. 
NortH AND SourH IsLuanps: Not uncommon from the North Cape south- 
wards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—January. 
10. C. filiformis, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 142.—“ A very 
slender rigid creeping plant, glabrous or pilose. Leaves minute, 
+in. long, oblong, pinnatifid, segments subulate. Scapes filiform, 
lin. long, naked. Heads minute, ;4,in. diam.; involucral scales 
6-8, orbicular, with purple edges; receptacle conical; ray-florets 
about 20; corolla short, compressed, inflated, very broad- oblong, 
2-lobed above; achene obconic, glandular; disc-florets funnel- 
shaped, 4-lobed; lobes glandular.’”’—Kurk, Students’ Fl. 325. 
Soutu Isnanp: ‘‘ Canterbury Plains, amongst grass, Haast.’’ 
This does not seem to have been collected since its original discovery, more 
than forty years ago. Not having seen specimens, I have reproduced Hooker’s 
description. 
1l. C. Haastii, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 325.—Stems rather short, 
stout, creeping, branched, 1-6 in. long or more, pubescent. Leaves 
3-14 in. long, pubescent on both surfaces, gland-dotted, linear- 
oblong or linear-obovate, deeply pinnatifid or almost pinnate; seg- 
ments narrow-oblong, recurved, entire or deeply toothed or incised, 
teeth often confined to the upper margin. Peduncles slender, pubes- 
cent, much longer than the leaves. Heads 4-1 in. diam.; involucral 
bracts in 2-3 series, broadly oblong, obtuse, with broad purple tips. 
Receptacle convex. Female florets in 3-4 series; corolla short, 
ovoid, compressed. Disc-florets very numerous, funnel-shaped, 
with 4 short and broad teeth. Achene oblong-obovoid, obscurely 
angled, glandular. 
SoutH Isnanp: Canterbury Plains, Haast! Petrie; Banks Peninsula, 
Haast! Kirk! Cockayne ! Sea-level to 2500 ft. December—January. 
Closely allied to C. pectinata, but the leaves are broader, with the segments 
deeply toothed or incised. 
