radical, upright and spreading, elliptically lanceolate, ta- ' 



pering into a kind of footstalk at the lower part. Flower- 

 heads lateral, radical, sessile, numerously flowered, from 

 spikes shortened into crowded turbinate bracteously leafy 

 heads standing just above the ground. Bractes herbaceous, 

 single, upright, lanceolately-tapered, topping the flowers, 

 partly under ground. Flowers numerous, yellow, placed 

 singly in the heads: corolla sixparted, rotate, outspread, 

 even, as well as the germen covered on the outside by a soft 

 long-haired close-pressed fur ; segments oblong, pointed, 

 half an inch long. Stamens standing upon the disk of the 

 corolla, which is -^ longer, having a narrow interval be- 

 tween each : filaments subulate, flexuose, yellow, converg- 

 ing, but little longer than the anthers : anthers deep yel- 

 low, facing inwards, adnate, linearly elongated, bluntish 

 at the top, notched at the base, tipped on the outside with 

 black : pollen yellow. Style columnar, stouter than the 

 filaments, of a paler yellow, equal to the corolla, and 

 springing from its centre-point : stigma slightly headed, vil- 

 lous. Germen inferior, under ground, about -^ longer than 

 the corolla, nearly of the diameter of the tube of a small 

 quill, dirty or brownish white, obtusely 3-cornered ; trilo- 

 bular, fertile and polyspermous at the base, at the top 

 lengthening into a solid sterile continuous neck (according 

 to others, the tube of the flower) : ovules in two rows at the 

 inner comer of each cell. 



