Cotula. | COMPOSITAE. 997 
Sourn Istanp: Canterbury—Banks Peninsula, common on dry banks, particularly 
near the sea, or on the seaward side of the hills, Haast! 7. Kirk! Cockayne! R. M. 
Laing! Canterbury Plains, Haast (mide Handbook). Sea-level to 2500 ft. Decem- 
ber—January. 
Closely allied to C. pectinata, but the leaves are broader, with the segments deeply 
toothed or incised. 
12. CG. peetinata Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fi. (1864) 142. — Stems 
1-6in. long, creeping and rooting, rather stout, wiry, woolly or glabrate, 
often putting out silky runners. Leaves few, scattered, rigid, glabrous 
or silky, #-Idin. long, linear-oblong in outline, pectinately pinnatifid ; 
segments cet mibdlate. entire. Peduncies dlendor. naked or rarely with 
a aS bract about the middle, 1-3 in. long, exceeding the leaves. ‘Heads 
+-+in. diam., involucral bracts in 2-3 Series, broadly oblong, pubescent, 
purplish ; margins jagged. Female florets in several series ; corolla ovoid, 
compressed, minutely 2-4-toothed at the narrow mouth.  Dise-florets 
funnel-shaped, 4-toothed. Achene narrow-obovoid, compressed and slightly 
winged.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 325 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
356. : 
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Var) sericea (1’ Kirt 1. c. 326.—Smaler and more compactiy Deshepes, everywhere 
clothed with long dense silky hairs. Peduncles shorter and stouter, $}-lin. long. Heads 
din, diam, Perhaps a distinct species. 
Sourn Isutanp: Nelson—Clarence Valley, 7. F. C.; Mount Captain, 7’. Kirk! 
Canterbury—Mountains above the Broken River, J. D. Enyst ToKakl 7. to 0% 
Mount Torlesse, Haast! Mount Cock district, 7. F. C. Otago—Mount Ida, Mount 
Cardrona, and plentiful in most mountain districts, Petrie / “Cockayne! Poppelwell. 
Var. sericea: Old Man Range and Mount Cardrona, Petrie! Ben Lomond, Mount Ida, 
Mecunt Pisa, Cockayne / Altitudinal range from 1500 to 6000 ft. December- 
Februarv. 
13. ©. Willeoxii Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvim (1916) 212.— 
Stems 14-6 in. long, creeping and rooting, copiously branched and usually 
forming compact patches, sparsely silky- pilose or sometimes nearly glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, with the petiole $-} in. long, glabrous or faintly 
pubescent, gland-dotted, pinnatisect ; segments usually a single pair with 
a terminal one, rarely two pairs, flat, linear-oblong, subacute, usually quite 
entire or very rarely one or both of the lower segments are forked at the tip. 
Peduneles long, slender, naked, sparingly pilose, 393 in. long, much exceeding 
the leaves. Heads $-4 in. diam. : involucral bracts in 1-2 series, oblong, 
obtuse, purplish at the tips, margins scarious, jagged. Jemale florets im 
2-3 series; florets of the disc narrow funnel-shaped, 4-toothed. Achene 
narrow-obovoid. 
Soutn Istanp: Otago—Head of Lake Wakatipu, near Mount LEarnslaw, 
W. Wilcox f Decem ber—February. “Fone G7, 
A well-marked species, closely allied to C. pectinata in the structure of the flower- 
heads, but in other respects showing many points of difference. It is larger, and much 
more giabrate ; the peduncles are longer and more slender; and the leaves are never 
pectinate-pinnatifid, which is always the case in C’. pectinata. Usually the ieaves have 
only a single pair of segments with a terminal one, but more rarely there are two pairs 
of segments, in that case resembling small forms of C. pyrethrifolia. From that plant, 
however, it is at once distinguished by the bisexual flower-heads, to say nothing of 
other differences. I have seen no specimens except those gathered by Mr, Wilcox, 
which are copious and in good condition. 
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