when dry. Roofstock perennial. Stems one to two feet high, 
sparingly branched, slender, angled, pubescent below, villous 
above. Leaves three to four inches long, sessile, or narrowed 
into very short petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base 
acute, minutely toothed, the teeth tipped with a globose 
gland, hairy above, usually tomentose beneath, very mem- 
branous, bright green. Heads two and a half to three 
and a half inches in diameter, shortly peduncled, ter- 
minating leafy branches. JInvolucre very broad, shaggy; 
bracts elongate, linear-subulate, spreading and _ recurved, 
finally squarrose. lowers of the ray very numerous (about 
35), with slender spreading pale-yellow ligules an inch and 
more long ; ligule slightly hairy towards the base, obtusely 
three-toothed at the apex. Dise flowers very numerous. Re- 
ceptacle convex, papillose. Anthers with slender tails. 
Achenes very small, deeply grooved. Pappus hairs in one 
series, dirty-white.—J/. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Outer and inner involucral bracts; 3, receptacle; 4, the same 
cut vertically ; 5, corolla of the ray ; 6, young achene of the ray crowned with the 
base of an accessory foliaceous appendage; 7, style-arms of ray-flower, 8, flower 
of disc ; 9, stamen ; 10, its style-arms; 11, pappus hair :—all enlarged. 
