-dontati; staminibus 4-5; stylo 
v. rotundate, mar- 
i, papillosum. 
M 11. radii 
ipitifonnc— 
HerbBB/« 
ii Dotal*, 
Composite.] FLORA OF TASMANIA 
stipitati ; radii $ , pluriseriati ; corolla compressa, inllata, latiusc 
stylo exserto, bifido, ramis divaricatis ; /. disci £ , sterilrs, tubu 
exserto, stigmate disciform! subbilobo. Tnvohcri squama- 1-: 
ginibus scariosis sphacelatis. lleeejditcvlnui convexum v. conicun 
obovatum, obcompressum, maniinibus incrassatis; il. $ nullum v. 
This curious genus is confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, Southern Australia, Lord Auckland's and Campbell's 
Islands, Kerguelen's Land, and Fuegia, whence eight or ten species are known, of which three or four are Austra- 
lian. The most peculiar character consists in the frequently inflated flowers of the ray, whose corolla is formed of 
two layers, with an intervening hollow space (see 'Flora Antarctica.' p, 18), hi a genua it i- perhaps hardly dis- 
tinguishable from Cotula, in which the flowers of the circumference have sometimes an imperfect corolla, and only a 
very short stipes; the achenia are however usually more winded in the Australian species of Cotula. All the Tas- 
mania 1 .! species have \er\ i'ev involueral scales, whence I proposed (bond, .loiirn. Hot.) that they should he included 
in a subgenus, 5, monoecious or dioecious herbs, often throwing out rooting suckers, smooth. 
silky, or woolly, with scapes bearing solitary, yellow, inconspicuous heads, which have no ray, and are button- 
shaped. Leaves pinnatilid. Limlncrat sen/,* in one or many series, hroad. \\ilh a iiiembraiioiis. In-own or purplish 
edge. Receptacle convex 
truncate or four- toot I ied mouth. Style exserted. I 
discovered.) 
1. Leptinella longipes (Hook. fill, in Lond. Journ. Bet li. 117'; dabernma, Otnfa proatuto n - 
pente radicante, foliis erectis longe petiolatis lamina late oval a pinnatiiida, laciniis paucis erecto-patentibus 
obovatis obtusis paucidentatis, pedunculis solitariis axillaribus clongatis foliis requilongis erectis, capitulo 
sphgerico, involucri hsemisphserici squamis rotuudatis, floribus radii glandulosis, acheniis immaturis alatis 
maturis subtrigonis vix alatis. (Gunn, 404.) (Tab. LII. A.) 
Hab. Marshes near Circular Head and Launceston, Gunn.— (Fl. Dec, Jan.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria. 
An insignificant, perfectly glabrous, creeping herb.— Rhizome rather stout, several inches long, sparingly 
1 at el d oot ig at the nodes, and there bearing leaves and a solitary scape, leaves erect, on petioles 1-3 inches 
long; lamina oblong, pinnatifidly cut into eight to ten obovate, lobed, cut or entire, spread 
erect, slender, about as long as the leaves. Cajntula ± inch broad, Inaokcml xcal<-* about five, 
orbicular. Receptor!, conical narrow. Flower* of circumference Genu -hema obo- 
vate-oblong, shortly stipitate, obsenrery winged when young, tens nata 
dular corolla. Style exserted, decurved, bifid.— Plati: LII. ./. Kg. I. capttutam; - 
3, scale of involucre ; 4, floret of circumference : 5, achenia ol 
liigldy magnified. 
2. Leptinella intricata (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 117); pusilla, glaberrima v. pfloaa, 
intricate caapitosa, caulibus repentibus radicantibus validis foliosis ramoan apices versus precipue pilosis, 
foliis breviter petiolatis basi in vaginam latam membranaceam dilatatis lamina ovato-oblonga pinnatifida, 
laciniis late ovatis profunde trifidis, segmentis acutis obtusisve, pedunculis brevibus, cnpituli> 
involucri squamis orbiculatis herbaceis, floribus disci acheniisque compressis glandulosis. {Gunn, 405 et 
1156.) (Tab. LII. B.) 
