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PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND 



Genus Cotula. 



Perennial herbs, often succulent, sometimes aromatic. Stems prostrate or 

 creeping. Leaves radical or alternate, usually pinnatifid. Heads small, 



terminal or axillary. Florets 

 4-5-toothed. Anthers without 

 tails. Achenes compressed, some- 

 times winged. Pappus 0. About 

 50 species, of which 19 are 

 endemic in New Zealand. (Name 

 from the Greek, signifying a 

 ciq), in allusion to the shax^e of 

 the involucre). 



Cotula Coronopifolia 



( TJie Coronopus-leafcd 



Cotula.) 



Stems fleshy, creeping, rooting 

 at the nodes. Branches 3in.- 

 10 in. high. Leaves J in. -2 in. 

 long, sheathing at the base, lobed 

 or pinnatifid. Heads J in. across, 

 yellow. Ray florets in 1 series ; 

 corolla 0. Achene flat, winged. 

 Both islands ; marshy places. 

 Fl. Sept.-lMarch. English name 

 Yellow - button. (The English 

 Coronopus is the Wart-Cress. 

 The name is originally from the 

 Oreek, meaning raven-footed) . 



Genus ErecJitites. 



Erect, glabrous, or cottony 

 herbs, 1 ft. -4 ft. in height. Leaves 

 simple or pinnatifid. Heads in 

 corymbs. Rnys 0. Florets tubu- 

 lar, 3-5-toothed. Anthers without 

 VvA. 15.1 crasi.edia unirtora (.^ nat. size). tails. Pappus in many series of 



small, soft hairs. About 7 species, 

 of which 3 are endemic in New Zealand. (A Greek name for groundsel). 



Epechtites prenanthoides {The Prenanthes-like Ercchtites). 

 Leaves 2 in. -6 in. long, narrow, hairy or shining, the upper ones sessile, with 

 toothed auricles. Heads in loose corymbs. Florets about 18 in. -20 in. Disk- 

 florets 4-lobed. Achenes angular. Pappus-hairs rigid. Both islands. Fl. 

 Oct. -Jan. (Prenanthes is a European and West African genus of Composites). 



