Descr. Roof annual. Stem erect, one to one and a half foot 
high, moderately branched, terete. Leaves glaucous-green, ob- 
long, subacuminate, but obtuse at the apex, entire, upper ones 
cordato-acuminate, all amplexicaul at the base, penniveined, the 
surface dotted, from a number of little hollow pits, best seen 
under the microscope; veizs few, simple, almost parallel with 
the slender costa. /nflorescence corymboso-paniculate ; peduncles 
and pedicels slender, the latter especially, bracteated with small 
scales, which become narrower under the capitulum, where they 
are scariose, oblong, and form the turbinate znvolucre. Corollas 
in this variety all rich purple blood-colour, deeper in the disk. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf, showing the pits which give the dotted appearance 
to the surface. 2. Floret of the ray, 3, Floret of the disk. 4. Seta of the 
pappus :—all more or less magnified, 
