Cotula.] XXXIX. COMPOSITAE. 323 



3. C. atrata, Hook. /., Handbk. 142. Rootstock rather stout^ woody, 

 shortly creeping. . Stem lin.— 5in. high^ succulent, ascending or erect, leafy, 

 pubescent. Leaves pubescent, fleshy, Jin. -lin. long, linear-oblong or obovate, 

 pinnatifid ; segments lobed, toothed, or crenate ; cauline leaves shorter, pin- 

 natifid or lobed. Pleads Jin.— fin. in diameter, subglobose or discoid ; involucral 

 bracts in several series, pubescent, entire, toothed or pinnatifid. Florets very 

 numerous, rugose ; female in 3—4 series, cylindric, 3— 4-toothed ; achene linear- 

 oblong, rugose. Disk-florets tubular, 4-toothed. 



SOUTH Island: chiefly on alpine shingle-slips. Nelson: Tarndale, Sinclair I Wairau 

 Gorge, Travers I Mount Captain Bangs and Spencer Mountains, T. E. Canterbury: Mount 

 Torlesse, Ashburton Glacier, and Maoaulay River, flaast/ Valley of the Mathias and mountains 

 above the Broken River, Enys I Otago : Mount St. Bathan's and Mount Kyeburu, Petrie I 2,500ft. 

 to 6,500ft. Jan., Feb. 



4. C plumosa, Hook. /., Handbk. 141. A handsome tufted feathery 

 soft villous species. Stems creeping, rather stout. Leaves villous or almost 

 woolly, petioled, oblong, membranous, 2in.— 6in. long, pinnate ; leaflets recurved, 

 the upper side 2-pinnatifid at the base, ultimate division toothed on one side, 

 Jin. long, acute. Scapes pilose or woolly, shorter than the leaves, filiform with 

 a pinnatifid bract about the middle. Heads Jin. in diameter ; involucral bracts 

 in 2—3 series, broadly oblong, with black or purple margins. Receptacle conical. 

 Female florets in 2—3 series on short pedicels ; corolla dilated laterally, con- 

 tracted at the mouth, unequally 4-toothed ; style-arms short ; achene obovoid. 

 Disk-florets tubular ; mouth campanulate, o-toothed. — Lepiinella plumosa, 

 Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. i. 26. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands, Booker. ANTIPODES Island, T. K. MACQUARIE 

 Island, Scott I Samilton I Dec, Jan. Also in Kerguelen Land. 



A beautiful species, forming dense matted patches with the heads hidden amongst the leaves. 



5. C. lanata, Hook. /., Handbk. 141. Stems 3in.-12in. long, robust, 

 prostrate or creeping, glabrate or woolly. Leaves ]in.— 2in. long, rather fleshy ; 

 blade obovate, pinnate, pinnatifid or shortly lobed ; segments entire or 3— 5-lobed 

 or -toothed along the upper margins, glandular ; petiole dilated at the base, 

 woolly on the inner surface. Scapes terminal, stout, shorter than the leaves, 

 woolly ; involucral bracts broadly oblong, green. Florets clothed with pellucid 

 conglobate glands ; female very narrow ; style-arms very short ; achene narrow, 

 obovate, papillose. — Lepiinella lanata, Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. i. 25, t. 19. L. pro- 

 pinqua. Hook, f . I.e. i. 27. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands. Dec, Jan. 



6. C. Maniototo, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xiv. (1882) 362. Rhizome 

 creeping, forming dense matted depressed grey patches. Branches short, leafy, 

 and the whole plant thickly covered with long white hairs. Leaves very 

 numeroiis, silky on both surfaces, Jin.— Jin. long, narrow linear-oblong, pin- 

 natifid to the expanded sheathing base ; segments linear-subulate, acute or sub- 

 acute. Heads terminal, Jin. in diameter; peduncle jj'giu.— j-^gin. long, stout; 

 involucral bracts in 2 series, shortly obovate, the outer silky with erose scarious 



