130 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Composite. 
bus anguste linearibus pinnatifidis lobis integerrimis incisisve, scapis sericeo-villosis foliis brevioribus, capi- 
tulis parvis paucifloris, involucri squamis 1-seriatis scariosis dorso sericeis, fl. $ 6-8 glaberrimis. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast, at Turakirae, Colenso. 
Mr. Colenso has sent this curious little species several times, but always in a very unsatisfactory state, as I 
nowhere find female flowers. Stem rigid, wiry, creeping, several inches long, emitting very short, erect, leafy 
branchlets. Leaves silky, 1 inch long, very narrow, pinnatifid; the lobes cut sharply and deeply, or entire. Scapes 
silky and almost shaggy, shorter than the leaves. Capitula very small, + inch broad, with a few quite smooth 
flowers; the males only seen. Znvolucral scales few, four to six in one series, silky, rather membranous and trans- 
parent.—This little plant will probably be found to vary much in the size of the foliage and capitula, though Mr. 
Colenso’s specimens are very uniform in those respects. 
Gen. IX. MYRIOGYNE, Less. 
Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, discoideum. —wvo/wcri squamæ pauciseriatæ, disco breviores. 
Receptaculum convexum, papillosum, nudum v. pilosum. ZYosculi exteriores $ , multiseriati; corolla tubulosa, 
perbrevi, ore subintegro ; stylo exserto, bifido : disei 8, pauci; corolla late campanulata, 4-fida; stylo apice 
. discoideo v. bifido. Achenia fl. 9 lineari-clavata, angulata, epapposa, inferne pilosa, fl.  stipitiformia. 
A very curious, prostrate, creeping weed, quite smooth, with sessile, axillary, rounded, inconspicuous, yellow 
heads, which are many-flowered; all but a few central flowers female. Involucre of two series of linear, blunt, 
smooth or pubescent scales, shorter than the flowers. Receptacle convex, papillose, naked or with a few long hairs. 
Female flowers very numerous, densely packed; achenium very long, club-shaped, hairy, ribbed or angled ; corolla 
very short indeed, tubular; style bifid, exserted. Hermaphrodite flowers very few, in the centre of the female, barren ; 
corolla broadly campanulate, four-cleft ; stamens four; anthers very short; style exserted, discoid and bifid. (Name 
from puptos, a myriad, and yvvn, female; in allusion to the numerous female flowers.) 
1. Myriogyne minuta, Less.; glaberrima v. glabrata, caule repente, ramis decumbentibus prostratisve, 
foliis lineari-cuneatis spathulatisve apice grosse dentatis. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Cotula minuta, 
Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands; abundant in waste places, chiefly about settlements, Banks and 
Solander, ete. 
A very common Australian, Mauritius, South Sea Island, and Indian plant; sometimes, especially when it 
grows in dry places, possessed of pungent properties, causing sneezing when bruised under the nose, Stems four 
inches to a foot long. Leaves 3-13 inch long, smooth, linear-cuneiform, coarsely toothed towards the point. Heads 
of florets + inch broad.—This is very closely allied to the Chilian M. elatinoides, Less. 
Gen. X. TRINEURON, Hook. fil. 
Capitulum, heterogamum, discoideum. —Zuvoluerum campanulatum; squamis coriaceis, linearibus, 2- 
seriatis, qualibus. Receptaculum angustum, papillosum, nudum. FZosculi radii  , plurimi (8-10), pluri- 
seriati; corolla tubulosa, elongata, ore 3-fido ; stylo longe exserto, bifido: disci 3, pauci, masculi, tubulosi, 
tubo superne subcampanulato, 4-fido ; staminibus 4; stylo exserto, apice incrassato, bifido. Achenium fl. 9 
lineari-oblongum, 3-4-gonum, angulis incrassatis; fl. Y breve, stipitiforme. 
Very small, smooth, coriaceous, linear-leaved, alpine herbs, hitherto only found in the mountains of New Zea- 
laud, Lord Auckland's Group, and Campbell's Island, where they form tufts amongst rocks, etc. "The genus is 
nearly allied to Seleroleima of Mount Wellington in Tasmania, and to Abrotanella of Cape Horn; and still more 
nearly to Ceratella of Lord Auckland's Group, a genus established with this in the * Flora Antarctica) The New 
Zealand species differs from the original 7. spathulatum in having a four- not three-angled achenium of the female 
