small rainfall during the winter, it requires greenhouse 
protection with very little water during that season. 
Descr.—Rootstock very densely white-woolly at the crown. 
Leaves all radical, ascending, five to ten inches long, one 
to two inches broad, oblanceolate to elongated oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, tapering from above or below the middle 
into the three-quarters of an inch to two inches long 
petiole, entire or obscurely denticulate or slightly crenate, 
thinly or densely pubescent above, more or less cobwebby- 
white-tomentose or nearly glabrous beneath. Peduncle 
one to each growth, four and a half to sixteen inches long, 
white-tomentose. lower-head solitary, two to three inches 
in diameter; involucre-scales numerous, the inner about 
half to three-quarters of an inch long, the outer shorter, 
lanceolate, acuminate, more or less cottony-white on the 
back. Flovets all bilabiate, those of the ray with four very 
small linear curled segments and one linear-lanceolate 
spreading segment one to one and a third of an inch long 
and one-twelfth to one-sixth of an inch broad, acute or 
two to three toothed at the apex, bright blood-red, yellow 
beneath; disk florets nearly half an inch long, with one 
broad and two slender linear revolute segments, brownish- 
purple. Anthers tailed, yellow. Stigma exserted, somewhat 
clavate, shortly two-lobed, yel'ow. Achenes puberulous, 
with violet-purple pappus.—N. E. Brown. 
Fig. 1, a ray-flower, the broad lobe of the corolla cut off at the middle; 2, a 
bristle of the pappus; 3, a disk-flower; 4, anthers; 5, whole plant, reduced :— 
figs. 1-4 enlarged; fig. 5 about one-sixth of the natural size. 
