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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 r 



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 

 clip, in allusion to the shape of 

 the involucre). 



Cotula Coronopifolia 



(The Goronopus-leaved 



Cotula}. 



Stems fleshy, creepy, rooting 

 at the nodes. Branches 3 in.- 

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

 long, sheathing at the base, lobed 

 or pinnatifid. Heads in. across, 

 yellow. Ray florets in 1 series * 

 corolla 0. Achene flat, winged. 

 Both islands ; marshy places. 

 Fl. Sept. -March. English name 

 Yellow-button. (The English 

 Coronopus is the Wart-Cress. 

 The name is originally from the 

 Greek, meaning raven- footed] . 



Genus Erechtites. 



Erect, glabrous, or cottony 

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

 simple or pinnatifid. Heads in 

 corymbs. RaysO. Florets tubu- 

 lar, 3-5 toothed. Anthers without 

 tails. Pappus in many series of 

 small, soft hairs. About 7 species, 

 (A Greek name for groundsel}. 



Fig. 153. Craspedia uniflora (4 nat. size). 

 of which 3 are endemic in New Zealand. 



Erechtites prenanthoides (The Prenanthes-like Erechtites). 



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). 



