of last year, and informs me that his plants are seven or 

 eight years old. Its native country is Reverchon in Texas. 

 Descr. Whole plant more or less scabrid, with short 

 white persistent prickles. Stem simple, two to four feet 

 high, very robust, terete, but channelled when dry. Leaves 

 alternate, lower long-petioled, sixteen inches long, broadly 

 ovate in outline, pinnatifid or bi-pinnatifid, coriaceous, bright 

 green, strongly reticulately nerved beneath when dry, 

 uppermost linear ; lobes linear, two to five inches long by 

 one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad, tips acute and 

 pungent, when bi-pinnatifid the lobes are shorter, often 

 triangular ; petiole of lower leaves four to five inches long. 

 Heads sessile in the axils of the floral leaves or stoutly 

 peduncled, three and a half inches across the rays, the 

 terminal head often produced in a naked peduncle three to 

 four inches long. Involucre subglobose, one to one and a 

 quarter inch in diameter ; bracts very rigid, broad, scabrid 

 and ciliate, acuminate or produced into long rigid pungent 

 recurved beaks. Ray-flowers twenty to thirty, ligules 

 narrowly oblong, two-fid, rather concave, pale straw- 

 coloured or cream-white, young tipped with red-brown ; 

 style-arms revolute. Disk-flowers very narrow, with a 

 long slender cylindric pubescent obscurely notched style. 

 Receptacle scaly, scales ciliate, outer oblong mucronate, 

 inner linear-spathulate. Achenes broad, flattened, broadly 

 winged, the wings produced upwards. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of leaf and prickles; 2 and 3, scales of receptacle; 4, ray-flower ', 

 5, disk-lknver; (5, stamens; and 7, style from the same ; — all enlarged. 



