Descr. An erect quite glabrous branched shrub from one 
to two feet high: branches erect, leafy.. Leaves crowded, 
about an inch long, spreading, trifid to about the middle, 
contracted below the narrow subacute linear lobes into a narrow 
petiole-like blade; lobes 2-nerved, rather fleshy. Peduncles 
terminal, very slender, two to four times as long as the leaves. 
Heads an inch and upwards in diameter, bright-yellow. In- 
volucre hemispherical, of one row of about 8—10 oblong suba- 
cute green bracts, that are nearly free. ay flowers about 
8-10, female; tube short, very narrowly oblong, minutely 
3-toothed at the tip. Disk flowers short, tube campanulate 
above, with 5 spreading and recurved lobes. Achenes linear- 
oblong, closely many-ribbed, quite glabrous. 
Fig. 1, Ray-; and 2, disk-flowers :—both enlarged. 
