on the involucre. Stem simple or branched, cylindric, — 
smooth, as thick as a swan’s quill. Zeaves four to ten inches — 
long, thick and herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, irre: 
gularly lobulate, with crenate-toothed lobules ; radical shortly 
petioled, cauline sessile, semi-amplexicaul, with slightly 
decurrent bases, midrib and few principal nerves very — 
stout, venules none or inconspicuous. Heads in branched a 
corymbs, two to three inches in diameter, very bright red- 
purple, disk golden. Peduncles bracteate, stout, spreading; 
bracts one-half to one inch long, ovate-lanceolate, entire oF 
toothed. Znvolucre broadly campanulate, bright green ; scales 
numerous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, thick ; outer (formimg 
the calyculus), numerous, half as long as the inner. ay: . 
flowers twenty to thirty, spreading and recurved, ray linear- 
oblong, tip forked ; pappus as long as the tube; style-arms 
truncate. Disk-flowers funnel-shaped, lobes short, erect; 
pappus half as long as the tube. Achene unripe, glabrous, 
terete, smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower of ray; 2 ditto of disk; 3 pappus hair :—all magnified. 
