which has very rough, scabrid leaves, with distinct 
brownish hairs on the sader surface, whilst the leaves of 
our plant are quite velvety to the touch, and the hairs 
beneath are of a white, cobwebby nature. 
Descr.—A branching shrub, about 6 ft. high. Branches 
striate, pubescent, at length almost glabrous. Leaves 
sessile, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 4-7 in. long, 15-4 
in. broad, apex mucronulate, auriculate at the base, 
crenate, green and almost glabrous above, densely covered 
with a white tomentum below ; veins distinct on both sides, 
especially beneath. Capitula about 1} in. in diameter ; 
peduncles about 24 in. long. Involucral bracts oblong, 
subacute. Palea of the receptacle subulate from a broad 
base, pilose, about 34 in. long. Ray-flowers about 9, ?, 
white ; tube 3 in. long, glabrous; lamina oblong-obovate, 
scarcely 3 $ in. long, 4 in. broad, 7- or 8- nerved, apex 
minutely tridentate, glabrous above, glandular-pilose below. 
Style-branches penicillate, glabrous. Disc-flowers 9, yellow; 
tube % in. long, pilose outside, constricted at the base ; 
— lobes deltoid, obtuse. Anthers apiculate. Style glandular- 
pilose above the middle ; ; branches flattened, penicillate at 
the apex. Achenes quadrangular, glabrous. Pappus none. 
—J. Hurontnson. 
Fig. 1, involucral bract ; 2, ray-floret; 3, palea of receptacle; 4, disk- floret ; oe 
5, anthers ; 6, style arms :—all enlarged. 
