Composite] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
oblong, truncate palefe, with laciniated, ttfiu-rally three to five cuspidal. 
compressed, coriaceous, obovate-cuneate, the mar-ins produced into strciupr, divergent, pungent, rigid spines 
are grooved down the inner face. Corolla tubular, five-cleft. Anther* with the lobes produced into itaidflr I 
—Plate XLYIII.y/. Fig. 1, scale of involucre; 8, ditto of reoeptade 
magnified. 
Gen. X. COTULA, A. 
(Cotula et Strongylosperma, DC.) 
Capitulum multiflorum, discoideum, heterogamum. Fl. radii hnninei, 1-3-senales, corolla (I v. in- 
completa; disci masculi v. hermaphroditi, tubulosi, tubo piano v. obcompn 
apice 4-dentato. Involucri squamse sub -2 -seriate, lineares, margins meinbran; 
nudum, papillosum. Aclenium compressum, marginatum, epapposum ; radn 
sile. — Herbse carnomla v. tenera ; foliis alternu, 
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The species of Cotula e 
Australia, but the majority i 
1. Cotula coronopifolia (Linn. Sp. I' 
cendentibus, foliis basi amplexicaulibus lincari- 
cilibus, ii. radn 2-3-scriatis numorusis !om:< 
dorso glaudulosis v. pilosis.— Di ■ I 
Hab. Common in wet pastures by the sides of stre 
Dec.) (r. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia, 
and North Germany, Spain. (Cultivated in England.) 
dilated into a broad h.b. 
natifid. Capitula fr-* inch long. Fiords of ti 
studded on the face, toward- 
there being no corolla. 
2. Cotula australi* (Hook. 
brata, foliis petiolatis oblongis pint 
culifl gracilibus elongntis, capfhiKs panris, mvolncn squamn 
3-seriatis stipitatis, disci paucis, achcniis radn obovatis a 
tubum (corollam) brevem producta.-Strongv losperma an 
Aucvelus australis, Sieb. Plant. Exsicc. 331. An Cotula 
CoU. in Herb. Hook.) (Tab. L. A.) 
ii. R \ iron.— (Fl. Oct., Nov.) 
