indeed are more like those of some Mesembryanthemum, 

 or Fig-Marigold, than of any Groundsel. It blossoms in 

 August, and from its copious, large yellow flowers, has a 

 lively appearance. 



Descr. Stem shrubby, branched, woody, a foot or more 

 high, nearly of the thickness of the finger, clothed with a 

 rough, pale-green, downy bark. The branches are termi- 

 nated by dense fascicles of glaucous-green, fleshy, cylin- 

 drical leaves, three to five inches long and three lines broad, 

 curved, the apex flat, or, as it were, scooped out on one 

 side, and more or less dilated, so as to be almost spoon - 

 shaped : — the whole is clothed with a cobwebby, compact 

 substance, lying close to the surface. From the axil of the 

 leaves arises a peduncle a foot long, paniculated, bearing a 

 small leaf Sit the setting on of the first, or lowest, branches ; 

 the leaves upwards gradually pass into subulate, appressed 

 scales, or bracteas. The peduncle and its branches are red- 

 dish, striated, downy. Pedicels single-flowered ; the flower 

 large, full yellow. Involucre shortly cylindrical, or almost 

 turbinate, downy. Scales, or leaflets, subulate, in two rows, 

 sphacelate at the point ; the base having a few appressed, 

 short, subulate scales. Florets of the ray and of the disk as 

 in other species of the Genus. 



Fig. 1. Floret of the Disk. 2. Ditto of the Ray -.—magnified. 



