Botanical Gardens in 1885, and flowered in May of the 
present year. 
Descr. Whole plant more or less hispid or hirsute. 
Rootstock rather stout, simple or branched, giving off 
tufts of rosulate leaves, numerous long slender stolons 
which are prostrate or pendulous over rocks, and many 
ascending usually slender one-flowered scapes. Radical 
leaves one to one and a half inches long, shortly petioled, 
oblanceolate or obovate, acute or subacute, entire or more 
or less toothed, pale green above, paler beneath with two 
or three pairs of ascending nerves; leaves on the stolons 
much smaller and more sessile, those on the scapes few and 
linear or linear-obovate. Scapes rich dark brown, two to five 
inches high, with spreading hairs. Heads three-quarters 
to one and a quarter of an inch in diameter. Involucre 
campanulate ; bracts in about two series, red brown, with 
green backs, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 
nearly glabrous except at the subfimbriate margins. [ay- 
jlowers in one series, pale lilac blue, linear, tips minutely 
notched. Disk-flowers few, yellow, not forming a compact 
mass. Achenes narrowly obovate, compressed with an 
obtuse ridge on the face, silky; pappus rather longer than 
the achene, rigid, dirty reddish.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bracts of the involucre; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-flower; 4, stigmatic arms 
of ditto; 5, achene of ray, and 6, of disk :—all enlarged. 
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