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Cotula.] tips. Leaves alternate on slender creeping runners or fascicled on short lateral branchlets, thin and membranous, glabrous or slightly silky, ½–2 in. long, linear-oblong or linear-obovate in outline, pinnatifid almost to the base; segments close-set or the lower distant, oblong or obovoid, recurved, deeply and acutely toothed on both edges or on the upper only. Peduncles slender, naked, shorter or longer than the leaves. Heads small, ⅙–⅕ in. diam.; involucral bracts few, 8–12, broadly oblong or orbicular, usually with broad purplish margins. Female florets in 3-4 series; corolla inflated, broadly ovoid, with a narrow 2–3-toothed mouth. Disc-florets fewer in number, funnel-shaped, 4-toothed. Achenes of the female florets obovoid, glandular.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 324. Leptinella minor. ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 129. Soliva tenella, ''A. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 445.

10. C. filiformis, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 142.—"A very slender rigid creeping plant, glabrous or pilose. Leaves minute, ¼ in. long, oblong, pinnatifid, segments subulate. Scapes filiform, 1 in. long, naked. Heads minute, $1⁄10$ in. diam.; involucral scales 6–8, orbicular, with purple edges; receptacle conical; ray-florets about 20; corolla short, compressed, inflated, very broad-oblong, 2-lobed above; achene obconic, glandular; disc-florets funnel-shaped, 4-lobed; lobes glandular."—Kirk, Students Fl.'' 325.

11. C. Haastii, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 325.—Stems rather short, stout, creeping, branched, 1–6 in. long or more, pubescent. Leaves ½–1½ in. long, pubescent on both surfaces, gland-dotted, linear-oblong or linear-obovate, deeply pinnatifid or almost pinnate; segments narrow-oblong, recurved, entire or deeply toothed or incised, teeth often confined to the upper margin. Peduncles slender, pubescent, much longer than the leaves. Heads ⅙–¼ in. diam.; involucral bracts in 2–3 series, broadly oblong, obtuse, with broad purple tips. Receptacle convex. Female florets in 3–4 series; corolla short, ovoid, compressed. Disc-florets very numerous, funnel-shaped, with 4 short and broad teeth. Achene oblong-obovoid, obscurely angled, glandular.