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[ Cotula . 
Northern Island : Hawke’s Bay, etc., east coast, Colenso. Middle Island : Akaroa, 
Raoul ; Canterbury, Travers. Also very nearly allied to the South American Leptinella 
scariosa, but the iarge female heads, with large iucurved involucral scales concealing the 
florets, as in L. perpusilla, are very different. 
13. C. minuta, Forst. — Ilyrioyyne minuta, Less. — FI. N. Z. i. 130. A 
glabrous, prostrate, excessively branched, annual herb. Leaves alternate, ses- 
sile on the branches, -J— | in. long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, unequally 
sparingly toothed. Heads in. diam., axillary, sessile, depressed, spherical ; 
involucral scales in 2 series, linear, obtuse ; — -fem. A. very numerous, densely 
packed ; corolla short, 4-cleft ; acliene linear, angled, pilose ; — male fl. very 
few, central ; corolla broadly campanulate. 
Northern and Middle Islands, in waste places near settlements, Forster , etc. Very 
fragrant w r hen bruised. Also a native of India, China, Japan, Australia, the Pacific islands, 
and Chili (AT. elatinoides , Less.). 
10. CRASPEDIA, Forster. 
Perennial, erect, silky, simple, leafy herbs, bearing one globose, terminal, 
dense, involucrate, compound head, formed of numerous slender flower-heads, 
aggregated on a small receptacle. Leaves radical and alternate, simple, long. 
—Heads narrow, of 5-8 small, yellow, tubular, 5-toothed florets. Involucral 
scales long, membranous, hyaline, linear. Receptacle very narrow, bearing 
hyaline scales amongst the florets. Pappus of 1 row of very soft feathery 
hairs. Anthers with 2 slender tails. Styles included. Acliene silky, oblong, 
narrow. 
A small genus of Tasmanian, Australian, and New Zealand plants, excessively variable. 
Pubescent or tomeutose 1. C. firnbriata. 
Lanate with white wool 2. C. alpina. 
1. C. firnbriata, DCfi; — Fl. N. Z. i. 131. Slender or robust, 4-15 
in. high. Leaves usually all radical, with only bracts on the scape; radical 
petiolate, 1-8 in. long, spathulate, obtuse, quite entire, usually fringed with 
white tomentum, glabrate pubescent or woolly. Compound head ^-2 in. 
diam., soft, white dotted with yellow florets. — C. uniflora, Forst. 
Northern and Middle Islands : abundant, from the East Cape southwards, Banks 
and Solander, etc., ascending to 5500 ft. on the Discovery Peaks. I cannot distinguish this 
satisfactorily from the Australian and Tasmanian C. Richea. 
2. C. alpina, Backhouse, in Fl. Tasm. i. 198. — C. fimlriata, e. lanata, 
Fl. N. Z . i. 132. Very near C. firnbriata, and perhaps only a variety, but at 
once distinguished by the clear white cottony wool on the lower or on both 
surfaces of the leaf and scape. 
Middle Island : Nelson mountains, Bidwill ; Upper IVaihopai and Wairau, Munro ; 
grassy places on the llangitati, Kowai and Godley rivers, alt. 4-6000 ft., Hanst ; Otago, 
lake district, Hector and Buchanan. Intermediates between this and the preceding may 
be fouud. It is a native of the Tasmanian and Victorian alps. 
11. CASSINI A, Br. 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, small, persistent, simple, often white or rusty 
below. Heads in terminal panicles or corymbs, small, white. — Involucre 
