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Cotula.]

1. C. coronopifolia, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 892.—Perfectly glabrous, smooth and succulent. Stems creeping and rooting below, ascending at the tips, branched, 2–10 in. high. Leaves scattered, dilated and clasping the stem at the base, ½–2 in. long, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coarsely toothed or lobed or pinnatifid or entire. Heads bright-yellow, ⅓–½ in. diam., on long slender axillary peduncles exceeding the leaves; involucral bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, membranous. Receptacle slightly convex. Female florets in 1 series, on slender flattened pedicels; corolla wanting; ovary winged, notched at the top; style short, seated in the notch. Disc-florets on much shorter pedicels, very numerous; corolla tubular, more or less dilated at the base, 4-toothed at the tip. Achenes of the female florets oblong, compressed, with a broad spongy wing; those of the disc-florets smaller, with a much narrower wing.—''Forst. Prodr. n. 300; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 235; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 443; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 127; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 141; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 549; Kirk, Students' Fl. 322.

2. C. australis, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 128.—A slender much-branched flaccid herb 2–6 in. high; branches spreading, prostrate or suberect, more or less clothed with long lax hairs or almost