142 xxxix. composite. [ Cotula . 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. I). II. The Leptinella propin- 
qua, Hook, f., of Campbell’s Island, is a broader-leaved variety of this species. 
5. C. atrata, Hook./., n. sp. Robust, pubescent ; steins shortly creep- 
ing, ascending or erect, stout, 2-4 in. high, very leafy. Leaves 1 in. long, 
linear-oblong, erect, pinnatifid ; lobes close-set, crenate or toothed, thick and 
fleshy. Scapes stout, pubescent, clothed with pinnatifid bracts. Heads 
large, -§— £ in. diam., subglobose ; involucral scales in 2 or 3 series, oblong, ob- 
tuse, entire or pectinate or pinnatifid ; receptacle conic : florets excessively 
numerous, black when dry ; outer female in several series ; tube of corolla 
eylindric, rugose, 3- or 4-toothed; achene linear-oblong, rugose: disk tl. 
funnel-shaped, with very long rugose tube, 4-toothed. 
Middle Island : shingle heaps on the alps, alt. 2-6500 ft. ; Tarndale, Sinclair ; Wairau 
gorge, Travers-, Ashburton glacier, Mount Torlesse, and Macaulay river, Haast. A very 
singular plant. Ilaast observes that the heads, when fresh, present a dark-yellow eye with a 
brown rim. The involucral scales are sometimes quite entire, at others all pinnatifid. 
6. C. minor. Hook. f . — Leptinella , LI. N. Z. i. 129. A small, creeping, 
pubescent or glabrate species, 1-15 in. long. Leaves either rosulate or al- 
ternate on long creeping runners, narrow linear-oblong in outline, pinnatifid 
almost to the base ; leaflets rather distant, short, recurved, obovoid oblong or 
linear, entire or cut on the upper edge only. Scapes slender, naked. Heads 
small, \ in. diam. ; involucral scales 8-20, orbicular, with purple edges : 
florets yellow, glabrous or glandular, of ray in several series ; corolla flat- 
tened, ovoid, inflated, with narrow 2- or 3-toothed mouth ; achene obcuneate : 
disk fl. funnel-shaped, with 4 large teeth. 
Northern and Middle Islands: east coast, Colenso ; Foxhill, Nelson, Munro ; Can- 
terbury plains, Lyall, Travers. 
7. C. filiformis. Hook./., n. sp. A very slender, rigid, creeping plant, 
glabrous or pilose. Leaves minute, ^ in. long, oblong, pinnatifid, segments 
subulate. Scapes filiform, 1 in. long, naked. Heads minute, -JL. in. diam. ; 
involucral scales 6-8-, orbicular, with purple edges ; receptacle conical; ray- 
fl. about 20 ; corolla short, compressed, inflated, very broad oblong, 2-lobed 
above ; achene obconic, glandular ; disk fl. funnel-shaped, 4-lobed ; lobes glan- 
dular. 
Middle Island : Canterbury plains, amongst grass, Haast. 
8. C. pectinata, Hook. /., n. sp. Stems short, tufted, 1-3 in. long, 
silky-pilose, at length glabrate. Leaves 1-1-^ in. long, rigid, narrow linear- 
oblong, pectinately pinnatifid, the lobes short, subulate, entire, pointing up- 
wards. Scapes slender, naked, 1-1| in. long. Heads £ in. diam. ; involu- 
cral scales about 15, pubescent, orbicular or oblong, with purple toothed 
edges ; receptacle conic : ray fl. in many series ; corolla oblong, compressed, 
2-lobed above; achene cuneate, compressed, glandular: fl.of disk funnel-shaped; 
lobes 4, glandular. 
Middle Island : Canterbury plains, and crevices of rocks on Mouut Torlesse, Haast; 
Otago, grass laud in the lake district, Hector and Buchanan. I have also a specimen with- 
out habitat from Sinclair’s Herbarium. The Mount Torlesse specimens have woolly stems, 
but the structure of the flower seems the same as the plains ones. 
9. C. pyrethrifolia, Hook.f. n.sp. A small, robust species, glabrous 
