of figuring this beautiful little plant, which flowered at the 
York Nurseries in May, 1879. 
Desor. A tufted low herb; stems three to four inches 
long, decumbent, slender, spreading from the perennial 
root, then ascending, clothed with soft silky silvery hairs. 
- Leaves one-fourth to one-third of an inch long, lower 
much shorter, loosely imbricating all round the stem and 
branches from their bases to their tips. Heads solitary, 
terminal, sessile, one-third to two-thirds of an inch in 
diameter.. Involucre obconic; bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, 
imbricate in many series, woolly, the innermost half an 
inch long and spreading, opaque and white for half their 
length. Receptacles conical, smooth, naked. lowers of the 
ray in several series, tubular, slender, three-toothed ; of 
the disk larger, narrowly funnel-shaped, five-lobed, gla- 
brous. Anther-cells with slender tails. Sty/e-arms truncate. 
Pappus-hairs few, in one series, very slightly thickened 
towards the tip, scabrid.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Receptacle with an inner involucral bract and flower of ray and of the 
disk ; 2, flower of ray and, 3, of the disk; 4, stamen; 5, style-arms ; 6, hair of 
pappus :—all enlarged. 
