of-each peduncle, oblong, acute, one and a half to two inches 
long, sessile and subamplexicaul, slightly hairy above, dark- 
green beneath, and very glaucous and arachnoid. Peduncles 
three to four inches long, singularly slender, terminated by a 
solitary, globose, drooping /ead of flowers, scarcely half an inch 
in diameter. nvolucre hemispherical, consisting of densely im- 
bricated, yellow-green, hyaline, membranaceous scales, closely 
pressed, ovate or trowel-shaped, silky at the margin, stipitate ; 
stipes as long as the scale, glandularly pilose, lower scales sessile 
or nearly so. Florets very numerous, bright yellow, all tubular, 
much longer than the involucre, a few outer ones female, the 
rest perfect: ¢use of the corolla long, very slender, infundibuli- 
form ; limb of five, ovate, spreading segments. Anthers scarcely 
exserted. Ovary oblong, cylindrical, crowned with a pappus 
of four, Jong, slender sete, clubbed and hispid at the apex ; 
branches of the style linear, acuminated, the apex conical, hairy. 
Figs. 1 and 2. Scales from the involucre. 3. Floret from the disk. 4. Seta 
from the pappus. 5. Branches of the style :—adl more or less magnified. 
