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A vei7 common plant in the Sonthern Hemisphere, and also found in varions parts of Em-ope, as at Hamburg
and in Spain, at the Cape of Good Hope, South Brazil, Australia, and Tasmania.—Smooth eveiywhere. Stems succulent,
creeping, branching, ascending, 2-1 0 inches long. Leaves scattered, 4 -3 inches long ; petiole araplexicaul, often
dilated into a broad sheath, lobed or toothed; lamina lanceolate or oblong, variously cut, lobed, toothed, or pinnatifid.
Heads 4-4 inch broad, terminating the long, slender, naked, scape-like ends of the branches. Florets of the
circumference with long stidks and broadly-wiuged achenia, which ave covered with loug glandular hairs on the
inner face ; the wing bifid at the top, and enclosing the style.
2. Cotula australis, Hook, fil.; tenella, pilis laxis subsericea v. glabrata, foliis petiolatis oblongis pin-
nati^dis lobis linearibus subacutis bipimiatifidisve segmentis integerrimis, caulibus apice longe nudis gi’aci-
libus scapiformibus, capitulis parvis, involucri sub-2-seriati squamis membranaceis glaberrimis, flosculis
radii 3-seriatis stipitatis disci paucis, aclieniis radii obovatis la te alatis ala crassiuscula apice bifida v. in
tu b um brevissimum producta. Strongylosperma australis, DC. Prodr. Ancyclus australis, Sieher, P la n t.
Exsicc. A n Cotula microcepliala, DC., et C. sororia, DC., Drege in Hook. Herb. ?
H a b . N o rth e rn an d Middle Islan d s ; in waste places, frequent, Cunningham., etc.
This also is a common plant in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and, if I do not mistake, is identical with
a Cape of Good Hope species also, of which I have not examined ripe fruit. The genus Strongylosperma, to which
De Candolle refers it, is founded upon Sieber’s Ancyclus australis, of which I have examined authentic specimens,
identical with this New Zealand plant. I do not find them to have rayed flowers with narrow ligulæ, as De Candolle
states. Carl Koch, in the ‘Botanische Zeitung’ (vol. i. p. 39, January, 1843), refers Strongylosperma to his
genus Fleiogyne, and distinguishes it from Cotula by the disc-flowers being few, and all, or a few of them, sterile,
and by the tube of the corolla not being winged—characters which appear of trifling importance, for the disc-flowers
of Cotula are generally only compressed (not winged), and the degree of imperfection of their achenia is a very
variable character. 0. australis may at once be distinguished from C. coronopifolia by its very slender habit, much
divided leaves cut into pinnatifid narrow lobes, by the generally more or less hairy stems, branches, and peduncles,
and by the numerous florets of the circumference, which have a much thickened wing.
Gen. YHII. L E P T IN E L L A , Cass.
multiflorum, homogamum v. beterogamum, discoideum. Involucri squamæ 1-3-seriales,
late ovatæ v. rotunda tæ, marginibus scariosis sphacelatis. Receptaculum convexum v. conicum, nudum,
papillosum. Flosculi omnes sessiles v. breviter stip ita ti : flosculi radii ? , pluriseriales ; corolla compressa,
inflata, latiuscula, tubulosa, ore incrassato 3 -4 -c ren a to ; stylo exserto, bifido, ramis divaricatis : flosculi
disci stériles, tubulosi, 4 -5 -d e n ta ti; staminibus 4 - 5 ; stylo exserto, stigmate disciformi subbilobo.
Achenium fi. radii obovatum, obcompressum, marginibus inc rassatis; fl. ^ nullum v. breve stipitiforme.—
Herbæ monoicoe v. dioicoe.
Creeping monoecious or dioecious herbs, often throwing out rooting suckers, smooth, silky, or woolly, with
scapes bearing solitary yellow inconspicuous heads, which have no ray, and are button-shaped. Leaves pinnatifid.
Involucral scales in one or many series, broad, with a membranous brown or purplish edge. Receptacle convex or
conical, naked, papillose. Florets all sessile, or shortly stipitate:—those of the circumference numerous, in many
series, female ; corolla short, compressed, inflated, tubular, with a contracted small four-toothed mouth ; style exserted,
bifid ; achenium obovate, compressed, with thickened wings and no pappus ;—florets of the disc hermaphrodite, tu bular,
with a four-toothed corolla, and a style ending in a cup or disc ; achenium abortive.—This curious genus is
confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, Lord Auckland’s and Campbell’s Island, Kerguelen’s Land, and Fuegia, whence
eight or ten species are kuown. The most peculiar character consists in the inflated female flowers, whose corolla
is formed of two layers, with an intervening hollow space (see ‘ Flora Antarctica,’ p. 38). The three Auckland and
Campbell Island species have not hitherto been found in New Zealand, and are much larger and finer plauts than any
here described. (Name, the diminutive of kenros, slender ; in allusion to the habit of the species first discovered.)
1. Leptine lla squalida, Hook, fil.; subsericea, foliis lineari-elongatis petiolatis gradatim superne la tio ribus
pinnatifidis lobis alternis remotis approximatisve oblongis recurvis obtusis margine snperiore præcipue
apiceque arg u te serratis, capitulo majusculo, involucri squamis 3-seriaIibus sericeis, flosculis eglandulosis.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islan d s. Hawke’s Bay, Colenso. Akaroa, Raoul.
Alhed to L. lanata of Lord Auckland’s Group, but very much smaller, and not woolly. Stems glabrous or
pilose, rooting, ascending, 3 -6 inches long, giving off tufts of leaves and scapes at tbe joints. Leaves more or less
silky with scattered hairs, sometimes villous at the base of the petiole, 1 -3 inches long, linear-oblong or spathulate,
broadest towards the top, deeply pinnatifid; the lobes spreading, recurved, oblong, sharply-toothed along the upper
margin and blunt point. Scape longer than the leaves, silky. Heads o f florets rounded, 4 inch diameter. Involucral
scales many, very broad, silky on the back, longer than the very numerous yellow florets.
2. Leptinella minor, Hook. fil. ; parvula, caule robusto radicante sericeo, foliis p unctatis glabratis
subcarnosis petiolatis lineari-oblongis pinnatifidis lobis lineari obovatis linearibusve p atu lis recurvis obtusis
integerrimis v. secus marginem snperiorem dentatis lobatisve lobis inferioribus minoribus, capitulis lietero-
gamis nunc liomogamis ? flosculis glandulosis exterioribus stipitatis.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. E a s t coast, Ba n k s a n d Solander, Colenso. Canterbury, L ya ll.
A much smaller species than the last, with more finely cut and regularly pinnatifid leaves. Stems stout, creeping,
3 -8 inches long, smooth or silky. Leaves covered with glandular dots, rather fleshy, linear-oblong, quite
smooth, or more or less pilose, I - I 4 inch long, regularly inciso-pinnatifid; lobes spreading, recurved, blunt, toothed,
crenate or deeply lobed along the upper margin, the lower ones smaller. Heads about 4 inch across. Involucral
scales silky or smooth, in about two series. Florets of the circumference female, in several series ; those of the disc
male ; all covered more or less with large rounded glands.—Sometimes I find many flowers of one sex only in each
capitulum, whence the plant is occasionally dioecious.
3. Leptine lla dioica. Hook, fil.; glaberrima v> parce pilosa, foliis late v. anguste lineari-oblongis obovatisve
longe petiolatis crenatis serratis lobatis inciso-pinnatifidisve segmentis subacutis oblongis, scapis
sericeis, involucri squamis pauci- v. pluri-seriatis, capitulis homogamis, flosculis glaberrimis. Cotula dioica,
Bank s et Sol. M S S . et Ic. Soliva tenella, A . Cunn. Prodr. ? [flde exemplar mancum in Herb. Heward.)
Yar. a ; foliis glabratis longe petiolatis lineari-oblongis spathulatisve inciso-pinnatifidis lobis curvis
integerrimis serratisve : (capitula ? solum visa.)
V a r ./3 ; foliis glabratis longe petiolatis la te obovatis rotundatisve crenato-lobatis lobis ap icu latis:
(capitula Î solum visa.)
Var. y . p u s illa ; caule robusto flexuoso, fohis brevius petiolatis forma var. a serrato-lobatis subpinnati-
fidisve : (capitula solum visa.)
H a b . No rth e rn and Middle Is la n d s ; probably common. Yar. a and E a st co a st; Cape Turnagain,
Colenso; Akaroa, Raoul. Var. 7 . Cape Turnagain, Colenso.
This species presents much variety in foliage, if all the varieties cited are not different species; and appears
further to be constantly dioecious ; for though I have examined several heads, I have never found one containing
flowers of botli sexes. \Yhole plant generally smooth, except tbe scape, which is rather silky. Leaves very variable,
4 inch (iu var. y) to 3 inches long, more or less crenate, lobed or cut, broadly ovate or linear-spathulate, not dotted
with glands, entire or pinnatifid ; the pinnules broadly oblong, blunt, quite entire or toothed. Male flowers with a
very broad corolla.
4. Leptinella p u s illa , Hook, fil.; caule rigido repente ramoso, foliis albido-sericeis v. glabratis unciali-
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