Descr. A. small mucli branched shrub ; branches leaves 

 beneath petioles, corymbs and involucre clothed with dense 

 pale buff or white appressed tomentum. Leaves one and 

 a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic-oblong or 

 linear-oblong, rarely ovate or obovate, obtuse or acute, 

 quite entire or very obscurely crenate, base acute, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous above with finely reticulate nervules ; 

 petiole one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, slender. 

 Heads about one inch in diameter, in very loose terminal 

 subcorymbiform panicles, with rather slender erect long 

 pedicels, and small scattered often obovate petioled or 

 sessile leaves, the uppermost of which are linear. Involucre 

 eglandular, shortly campanulate, base broad ; outer bracts 

 few linear spreading, inner erect, linear-oblong, acuminate ; 

 receptacle nearly flat. Ray-flotvers twelve to fifteen; 

 ligules one-third of an inch long, spreading, elliptic- 

 oblong, tip minutely 3-toothed, 2-nerved, golden-yellow; 

 tube quite glabrous ; style-arms very short, obtuse ; ovary 

 short glabrous. Disk flowers more numerous than those 

 of the ray, tubular, slightly dilated above the middle, teeth 

 short. Stamens shortly exserted ; anther-cells shortly free 

 at the base and acute, connective obtuse ; style-arms ex- 

 serted, short, truncate ; ovary short, glabrous. Pappus- 

 hairs unequal, scaberulous, white. Achene narrow, with 

 a dilated white apex, sparingly ribbed, quite glabrous or 

 with a few very short obscure hairs. — J. D. H. 



Fi£r. 1, Involucral bract; 2, flower of ray; 3, its style-arms; 4, flower 

 or disc; 5, stamens; 6, atyle-arms; 7, achene; 8, pappaB hair:— All en- 



