diam. across the flowers, peduncles slender, rather thickened, 

 obconical and hollow at the top. Involucre two- thirds of an 

 inch long, turbinately campanulate, bracts nearly equal in 

 length, outer lanceolate, thinly herbaceous, green, sparsely 

 villous with long hairs, inner scarious linear, or linear- 

 spathulate, hyaline, glabrous, or sparingly ciliate. Floivers 

 very many, much longer than the involucre, outer spread- 

 ing all round, golden-yellow. Corolla-tube very slender, 

 decurved, about half an inch long ; lobes short, flat, broadly 

 ovate, or nearly rounded. Anthers linear, cells with very 

 delicate hair-like fimbriate tails; connective produced into 

 a nail-shaped appendage. Pappus hairs about 20, equal in 

 length, much shorter than the corolla-tube, rigid, filiform, 

 barbellate. Achene small, terete, narrowly obconical, 

 contracted below into a subulate base, densely hispid. — 

 J.D.B. 



Fig. 1, Outer ; 2, inner involucral bracts ; 3, flowers ; 4, pappus hairs ; 

 5, anthers ; 6, style arms : — All enlarged. 



