simple or branched like a panicle, from about a foot and 
half to about 2 feet high. Leaves scattered, wide apart, 
upright, halfstemclasping, spatulately oblong, several times 
narrower than long, gradually diminishing into bractes, the 
longest about 4 inches, with an abrupt broadish point 
апа a brownish yellow subulate smooth tip; middle 
nerve unbranched. Flowers several, of a bright golden- 
yellow, upright, nearly corymbose, shorter than the pe- 
duncles. Calyx hemispherical; leaflets deep yellow, and 
often marked with some loosely scattered crimson spots, 
imbricant in several rows, lanceolately linear, unguiculate, 
the unguis round, green, villous, and resembling a petiole, 
lamina or blade scariose linearly lanceolate, furnished above 
the unguis for a little way on each side with long entangled 
wool, by means of which they hold together reciprocally 
with tbose the nearest to them ; from where the wool ends 
they have a silky fringe, and beyond that are smooth: the 
ungues of the inmost have a membranous edging, and are 
longer than their short erosely indented blades. Disk flat, 
broad, yellow, rather lower than the calyx: florets very 
numerous, funnelform, yellow, smooth: tube filiform, 
greenish, 3 times longer than the limb: limb of a glittering 
golden-colour, campanulate, segments spreading, recurved, 
pointed. Germen twice or thrice shorter than the florets, 
slender: pappus or aigrette of several feathery rays (7-82), 
Masi are equal to the disk. Receptacle naked, punc- 
tured. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. 
