356 COMPOSITH. [Cotula. 
12. C. pectinata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 142.—Stems 1-6 in. 
long, creeping and rooting, rather stout, wiry, woolly or glabrate, 
often putting out silky runners. Leaves few, scattered, rigid, 
glabrous or silky, 3-14 in. long, linear-oblong in outline, pectinately 
pinnatifid; segments short, subulate, entire. Peduncles slender, 
naked or rarely with a minute bract about the middle, 1-3 in. long, 
exceeding the leaves. Heads 3—+in. diam., involucral bracts in 
2-3 series, broadly oblong, pubescent, purplish; margins jagged. 
Female florets in several series ; corolla ovoid, compressed, minutely 
2-4-toothed at the narrow mouth. Disc-florets funnel-shaped, 
4-toothed. Achene narrow-obovoid, compressed and slightly winged. 
—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 325. 
Var. sericea, Kirk, l.c. 326.—Smaller and more compactly branched, 
everywhere clothed with long dense silky hairs. Peduncles shorter and stouter, 
3-lin. long. Heads fin. diam. Perhaps a distinct species. 
Soutu Istanp: Nelson—Clarence Valley, T. F. C.; Mount Captain, Kirk ! 
Canterbury—Mount Torlesse, Haast! mountains above the Broken River, 
Einys! Kirk! T. F.C. Otago—Lake district, Hector and Buchanan ! common 
in mountain districts, Petrie! Var. sericea: Old Man Range and Mount 
Cardrona, Petrie! Ben Lomond, Cockayne ! Altitudinal range from 1500 to 
6000 ft. December—January. 
13. C. Goyeni, Petrie im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xviii. (1886) 295.— 
A small tufted species. Stems 1-3 in. long, creeping and rooting, 
rauch branched ; branches short, ascending at the tips, with the 
leaves in. diam. Leaves alternate, imbricate, appressed to the 
branch, 3—-1in. long; lower half broad, membranous, glabrous or 
more or less pubescent, sheathing at the base; upper half cut 
straight down into 5-7 linear-subulate erect lobes. Heads terminal, 
minute, tin. diam., on short woolly peduncles rarely exceeding the 
leaves ; involucral bracts in 1 or 2 series, ovate-oblong, with scarious 
purple margins. Female florets few, in 1 series ; corolla ovoid, 
compressed, narrowed at the mouth. Disc-florets numerous, 
funnel-shaped. Mature achenes not seen.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
326. 
Var. pinnatisecta, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves pinnatifid, clothed with silky hairs. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—Mount Pisa and the Hector Mountains, Petrie! 
5000-6000 ft. January—February. 
A curious little plant, perhaps nearest to C. pectinata. The leaves closely 
resemble those of Azorella Selago. 
14. C. Featherstonii, F. Muwell. ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fil. 733.—Stems 6-12in. long or more, rather stout, prostrate or 
decumbent at the base, ascending above, much branched, leafy, 
clothed with short soft pubescence. Leaves alternate, #2 in. long, 
obovate-spathulate or oblong-spathulate, gradually narrowed to a 
sessile base, crenately 3- or 5-toothed at the tip or entire, flat, 
fleshy, finely and softly pubescent on both surfaces. Peduneles 
