distant, subulate, green. Jnvolucre cylindric, about a third 
of an inch long, ecalyculate ; bracts six to ten, linear, 
acute, or acuminate, three- to five-nerved, green, with 
scarious margins. Lay-flowers five, golden-yellow ; ligule 
half an inch long, linear-oblong, tip minutely three-toothed. 
Disk-flowers orange-yellow. Achenes minute, broadly ob- 
long, compressed, red-brown, margins densely villous, disc 
pubescent in the middle. Pappus-hairs inserted in the 
mouth of persistent cup, rather longer than the achene, 
white, scaberulous, caducous.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, ray- and 2, disk-flowers ; 3, hair of pappus; 4, stamens; 5, stigmas of 
ray-flower ; 6, achene with pappus :—all enlarged. . 
