Dezscr. Stem herbaceous, two to four feet, slightly branched 
except above, where the flowering branches, as well as the flowers 
themselves, are corymbose. Leaves three to six inches long, 
lanceolate, linear and small above, the lower ones subspathulate 
and serrated towards the point, the rest entire. /Vowers about 
an inch across. Scales of the involucres subsquarrose. FVorets 
all yellow; those of the disc tubular-clavate, perfect, their ache- 
nium obovate, downy, crowned with four to six subulate, mem- 
branaceous scales, as long as the achenium. Ylorets of the ray 
ligulate ; their achenium naked. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Floret of the disc. 3. Achenium of ditto :— 
