For the specimen here figured I am indebted to my 
friend the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton, in whose rich 
collection of hardy plants it flowered in June, 1900. 
Descer.—A stout, perennial herb, one to three feet high, 
covered with a white, floccose tomentum. Leaves few, 
coriaceous, radical a foot long, ovate- or linear-oblong, 
acute, obtuse or rounded and apiculate at the tip, base 
acute, rounded or narrowed into the stout petiole, upper 
leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute. Heads few, shortly 
stoutly pedicelled, four to five inches in diameter. Invo- 
lucre cupular; bracts ten to twelve, narrow, acute, erect. 
Ray-flowers ten to fifteen ; ligule an inch and a half long 
by a quarter of an inch broad, spreading and recurved, 
golden-yellow, as are the disk-flowers. Scales of the 
receptacle linear. Achenes linear-oblong, compressed, 
margins ciliolate. Pappus of a few unequal, rigid, seabrid, 
persistent bristles.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. bract of involucre ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, stamens; 5, “a 
arms of disk-flowers :—all enlarged. 
