downy, erect, slender, virgate, leafy throughout. Leaves 
linear-oblong, or linear-lanceolate ; the lowermost an inch 
and a half or two inches long and acute, the rest shorter 
and more obtuse, passing gradually upwards into small 
scales, which are numerous below the flowers, nearly gla- 
brous above, beneath clothed with white down. Flowers, 
or Capitula, terminal, solitary, yellow. Involucre bell- 
shaped ; its scales numerous, imbricated, acute, scariose, 
dark brown at the tip. Florets numerous, densely crowded. 
Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft. Anthers and Stigmas 
included. Germen oblong. Hairs of the Pappus slightly 
feathery. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Upper part of the Style and Stigmas. 3. Hair from 
the Pappus :—magnified. 
