be sometimes glabrous. Sfems a foot or more high, angular, 
erect. Lower and radical leaves spathulato-lanceolate, tapering 
below into a moderately long petiole: those higher up become 
gradually smaller and sessile, and often sphacelate at the apex. 
The head of flowers is an inch and a half broad, terminal, soli- 
tary, globose, of a fine yellow colour, involucrate at the base. 
Involucre of several green foliaceous leaves, reflexed and sphace- 
late at the apex. This head or capitulum is compound, that is, 
made up of a number of lesser heads or capitula, which are pe- 
dicellate and also involucellate ; zzvolucellum of four to five oval 
or obovate leaflets, and there is also a dractea at its base. 
. Floreis all tubular and bracteolate. Ovary cylindrical, silky, 
crowned with a hairy pappus, of which each hair is plumose. 
The style is a little exserted and the branches with the stigmas 
entirely so: the base of the style is considerably thickened. 
Fig. 1. One of the lesser heads which compose the large capitulum. 2. Brac- 
teole and single floret with its plumose pappus. 3. Plumose hair. 4. Style and 
stigmas. 5. Branches of the style ;—ald more or less magnified. 
