diameter. Jnvolucre nearly hemispheric, a quarter of an 
inch long ; bracts linear, acute, appressed, green, pruinose. 
Ray-flowers about forty, in two to three series; ligule 
narrowly oblong, pale rose-purple; disk flowers yellow. 
Achene nearly terete, pubescent. Pappus hairs white.— 
oH. 
Fig. 1, bract of involucre; 2, ray-flower; 3, disk-flower; 4, style-arms 
Ali enlarged. 
