slightly villous at the edge, inner upright and purple at 

 the end. Florets of the ra^ violet-coloured or purplish 

 blue: of the disk yellow. Pappus or seed-crown simple- 

 haired, sessile. 



The plant has been fancied by some among the elder 

 herbalists to be the flower meant by the Amelias or Amello 

 of Virgil : 



F 



Est etiam flos in pititisj cui nomen Ajnello* 



