below it; pubescent and pale beneath, midrib beneath hispid, 
base’ 2-lobed, auricled. Heads two and a half inches dia- 
meter, terminal, peduncled. nvolucral scales green, rigid, 
3—4-seriate, subulate-lanceolate, hispid, erecto-patent, the 
outer confluent at the base. Receptacle clothed with rigid 
bristles which exceed the achenes. ay-flowers twelve to 
fourteen, spreading, deep blood-red ; limb cuneate-oblong, ob- 
tusely 3-lobed. Disk-flowers short; lobes short, obtuse, erect, 
pubescent externally. Achenes cylindric-oblong, those of the 
ray with a pappus of few short broad scales; those of the disk 
with as many long rigid scales that terminate in setaceous 
points ; style-arms long, slender, exserted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower; 3, pappus scale of the latter:—all 
magnified. 
