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262 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSIT.E OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.
Scape glabrous ; bractless ; about 2 in. high. Hairs most plentiful as
usual on young leaves and petioles ; long, brown, coarse, sparingly or
copiously fringing leaf-margin. Leaf-petiole generally under } in. long.
Lamina |-|- in. long, variable in form and size ; suborbicular or ovate,
or even subspathulate, apex acute ; margin toothed, sometimes nearly
entire ; not more lobed about base than above ; dries to a blackish-
green. Head about ^ in. in diameter.
2. L. pinnatifida. Hook. f. Occurs in the same habitat as the pre-
ceding, with which it is apparently sometimes intermixed and apt to
be confounded.
Genus IX. Cotula.
1. C coronopijolla, L. Marshes on the roadsides about the For-
bury, Dunedin ;
in flower, W. L. L.
6-8 in, high, with yellow button-like heads; December,
The representative in Otago of our British marsh forms of Bidem
and PuUcaria. In my Otago plant the stem is usually 6-7 in. high.
Leaf very variable in size and form, according to its position on stem.
Under 2 in. long and \ in. broad; suboblong ;
irregularly and sometimes
doubly pinnatifid ; upper leaves less cut than lower, becoming sub-
simple or sometimes entire. Head about \ in. in diameter.
Specimens from Nelson (Travers) in my herbarium represent alto-
gether a much more delicate or slender, more erect plant—smaller in
all its parts—4-7 in. high. Leaves: upper simple, linear- lanceolate ;
lower generally 3-fid at tips, with long, lineav-oblong segments, central
largest ; never so much cut as in Otago forms ; quite as glabrous ; no
secondary division of leaf-segments. Head \-\ in. in diameter. Flower-
peduncle sometimes \\ in. long, filiform, drooping.
2. C. dioica, Hook. f. Sand dunes and swamps about mouth of
tile Kaikorai, W. L. L.
Genus X. Erechtites.
1. E. (irfjida, DC. Roadsides, Caversham, Dunedin, 15-18 in.
high; Chain Hill ranges, 18-24 in. tall; December, in flower and
fruit, W. L. L.
Leaf very variable in form and size, and in the number and character
of its divisions. Sometimes 3 in. long and f-l in. broad, but more fre-
quently from \-\ in. broad. Form broadly lanceolate in larger leaves ;
linear-oblong in the smaller ; and every gradation between these ex-
tremes. Margins revolute. Segments sometimes long and sublinear;