sessile, spreading, or deflexed, oblong-lanceolate, with 
pungent apex, narrowed towards the base, a third to 
three-quarters of an inch long, a ninth to a quarter of an 
inch broad, ciliate, rarely naked, with very obscure pellucid 
dots. Peduneles with scattered bract-like leaves, solitary 
and terminal, or several in a corymb. Bracts of the 
involucre lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, with pellucid 
margins, densely ciliate, glabrous, or more or less hispid 
outside. Ray-flowers lilac—corolla-tube about a twelfth 
of an inch long, pilose outside, towards the top; ligule 
about a third of an inch long, about a twelfth of an inch 
broad, three-toothed at the apex. Achenes glabrous; 
pappus inconspicuously barbulate. Disc floweis yellow— 
Achenes pilose, with subappressed hairs ; pappus like that 
of the ray.—T. A. Spracus. 
Fig. 1, leaf, 2, a ray-floret ; 3, pappus; 4, a disc-floret ; 5, anthers ; 6, style- 
arms :—all enlarged. 
