994. COMPOSITAE. | Cotula. 
Sourtn Istanp: Dry shingle-slopes in alpine localities, Nelson to Otago; not © 
uncommon. 3500-6500 it. January—February. 
Not closely allied to any other species. Its stout pubescent habit and greyish- 
green colour, much divided leaves, robust leafy peduncles, and large black or brownish- 
yellow heads are prominent characters, and will enable it to be recognized with the 
utmost ease. 
4. €. plumosa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 141.—A large densely 
. tufted aromatic species, often forming broad soft patches, everywhere clothed 
with long villous hairs. Stems short, stout, creeping. Leaves on long 
slender petioles 3-6in. long; blade 2-6 in., oblong in outline, flaccid and 
membranous, finely 3-4-pinnatifid; primary divisions close-set, linear- 
oblong, recurved, 2-pinnatifid en the upper side ; ultimate segments } in. 
long, linear, toothed on one side. Peduncles slender, shorter than the 
leaves, usually with a linear entire or pinnatifid bract about the middle. 
Head 4-lin. diam.; involucral bracts in 2 or 3 series, broadly oblong, 
with broad purplish-black margins. Receptacle conical. Female florets 
in 2-3 series, shortly pedicelled ; corolla compressed, swollen at the base, 
contracted towards the mouth, unequally 4-toothed. Disc-florets funnel- 
shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes of the female florets obovoid ; those of the 
disc-florets minute, abortive—Z. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 323; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 352; Subantaret. Is. N.Z. ii (1909) 416; Rept. Austr. 
Ant. Exp. Ser. C, vol. vii, pt. 3 (1919) 30. Leptinella plumosa Hook. f. Fi. 
Antarct. 1 (1844) 26, t. 20. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLANDS, ANnTIPoDES IsLaAND: Maritime rocks and 
meadows near the sea. Hooker, T. Kirk! and all subsequent botanists, abundant. 
Macovarig Istanp: Plentiful close to the sea, Scott, A. Hamilton, H. Hamilton! 
Decemhber—January. 
A very handsome species, by far the finest of the genus, easily recognized by the 
large pale-green feathery foliage. It is also found in Kerguelen Island and the Crozets. 
In Kerguelen Island it is the only Composite, and forms immense blue-green patches 
where the soil is enriched by the dung of birds. 
5. C. lanata Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 141.—Stems stout, 
prostrate and rooting below, ascending at the tips, branched, 3-12 in. long, 
densely clothed with white woolly hairs or glabrate. Leaves 1-3 in. long, 
woolly or glabrate, rather thick, with broad sheathing petioles; blade 
oblong in outline, pinnate or pinnatifid; pinnae close-set, curved, 3-0- 
toothed or -lobed along the upper edge, minutely glandular. Pedunceles 
terminal, shorter than the leaves, stout, woolly. Heads $-$in. diam. ; 
invelucral bracts in several series, broadly oblong, obtuse, green.  Florets 
all studded with-pellucid conglobate glands ; females ovate-oblong, broadest 
at the base, narrow at the mouth and minutely 4-toothed; disc-florets 
narrow funnel-shaped, 5-toothed. Achenes of the female florets obovate, 
compressed ; those of the disc-florets minute, abortive-—T. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 323; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 353; Subantarct. Is. N.Z. i 
(1909) 417.  Leptinella lanata Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 25, t. 19. 
L. propinqua Hook. f. l.c. 27. | 
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AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS: Abundant on rocks near the sea, Hooker, 
T. Kirk! Chapman! and all subsequent collectors. December—February. 
Varies much in the size and breadth of the leaves, and the extent to which they 
are divided, also in the degree to which the loose white cottony hairs of the young stems 
and leaves are developed. [ have seen no specimens of C. propingua, said to be inter- 
mediate between C. plumosa and C. lanata. 
