Greater Atlas, south of the city of Marocco, where it was dis- 
covered by Messrs. Maw, Ball, and myself, in May, 1871, on 
dry rocky places near Mouli Ibrahim, at 4-5000 feet elevation 
in the Reraia valley. The specimen here figured was flowered 
from roots brought by Mr. Maw, and grown in his garden 
at Broseley. They flowered August of the present year. A 
smaller and more slender variety of it occurs commonly at 
elevations of 5-6000 feet on the Atlas. 
Duscr. Root-stock woody, branched ; branches ascending, 
twelve to eighteen inches high, sparingly divided, terete, 
rigid, naked at the top and terminated by a solitary head, 
clothed sparsely, as are the leaves, with soft lax rather woolly 
hairs. Leaves scattered, about an inch long, variable in out- 
line, from almost triangular to oblong, pinnatifid to the base, 
into three or more variable slender incised lobes ; uppermost 
linear, quite entire. Head about one to one anda half inches in 
diameter, solitary, rather long-peduncled ; peduncle gradually 
swelling upwards. nvolwcre hemispherical, scales numerous, 
all similar, imbricate, linear-oblong, acute, green, with very 
narrow scarious borders. Ray-flowers about twenty, sub- 
2-seriate, tube short ; ligule broad linear-oblong, obtusely 3- 
toothed, white, rose-coloured at the back. Disk-flowers brown, 
tubular. Pappus alike in the ray and disk, tubular at the 
base, produced into a unilateral concave oblong obtuse or 
erose-tipped hyaline auricle, exceeding the tube of the ray- 
flower and equalling that of the disk-flower. Achene of ray 
and disk similar, cylindric-oblong, strongly ribbed.—/. D. H. 
eg 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower; 3, stigma of ray-flower :—all mag- 
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