Desor. All parts covered with soft hairs, and the mature 
leaves clothed beneath with a show-white tomentum. 
Leaves numerous from the perennial rootstock, petiole 
six to eight inches, tall, erect; blade five to ten inches 
long by two to three broad, runcinately pinnatifid 
with the margins of the lobes undulate and cut into 
unequally sinuately toothed obtuse or acute lobules. 
Scapes ten to eighteen inches long, stout, naked. Head 
solitary, suberect, three to four inches broad across the - 
rays. Jnvolucre three-quarters of an inch long, campanu- 
late, woolly, base intruded ; bracts lanceolate, appressed. 
Flowers of the ray in one series, about thirty, narrowly 
ligulate, three-toothed, dull yellow beneath, bright orange 
or flame-coloured above ; tube very short; bipartite inner 
lobe very small, revolute. Flowers of the small disk 
minute, with very short segments. Achenes of the ray and 
disc similar, terete (when young) and puberulous; pappus 
rather short, very minutely scaberulous, white.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray flower; 2, disk flower; 3, hair of pappus; 4, stamens; 5, style 
and stigmas :—all enlarged, 
