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Cotula.] 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.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 323. Leptinella plumosa, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 26, c. 20.

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A very handsome species, easily recognised by the large pale-green feathery foliage. It is also found in Kerguelen Island and the Crozets.}}

5. C. lanata, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 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, 3–5-toothed or -lobed along the upper edge, minutely glandular. Peduncles terminal, shorter than the leaves, stout, woolly. Heads ¼–⅓ in. diam.; involucral 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.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 323. Leptinella lanata. ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 25, t. 19. L. propinqua. ''Hook. f. l.c.'' 27.

6. C. Muelleri, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 324.—Stems long, rather stout, creeping and rooting, branched, sparingly villous towards the tips; branches ascending. Leaves 2–5 in, long; petiole ¾–2 in., sheathing at the base; blade 1–3 in., linear-obovate, membranous, glabrate or slightly silky, gland-dotted, deeply pinnatifid; segments oblong, closely toothed or lobed, teeth acute. Peduncles 1–3 in. long, usually shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Heads ⅓ in. diam.; involucral bracts in about 3 series, oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, membranous. Female florets in many rows, usually more numerous than the disc-florets; corolla short, ovoid, not glandular. Disc-florets larger; corolla tubular, 4-toothed; style undivided. Achenes of the female florets clavate, tetragonous.—Leptinella potentillina, ''F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.'' 28, t. 6.