feet long ; stem-leaves gradually smaller upwards. Flower- 
heads discoid, five-flowered, numerous, in broad, compound 
corymbs. Peduncles slender, subumbellate, furnished with 
a number of small, scale-like bracts. Involucral bracts 
five, oblong, about half an inch long, erect, with a broad 
wing running down the back, herbaceous, green; margins 
scarious and wing white. Corolla pale yellow. Anthers 
orange.—W. Borrine Hemstey. : 
Fig. 1, section of leaf-stalk; 2, a flower-head; 3, a cross section of the 
same showing the strongly winged involucral bracts; 4, receptacle and two 
bracts; 5, a flower; 6, a pappus-bristle; 7, anthers :—all enlarged. 
