into the short petiole or not, dark green, rugose, and 
glabrous above, greenish-white beneath. Scape three to five 
inches high, rather stout; bracts few, scattered, linear, 
foliaceous. Heads solitary, one and a half to two inches in 
diameter, yellow. Jnvolucre campanulate, sub-biseriate ; 
scales linear-subulate, green, with red purple tips, the inner- 
most close-set, with tips slightly spreading, base woolly. 
Ray-flowers about twenty, tube glabrous, very broadly linear- 
oblong, tip three-toothed; disk-flowers shortly five-toothed, 
teeth obtuse erect. Style-arms truncate. Achene short, 
smooth, even, glabrous ; pappus white, rather rigid, exceeding 
the involucre.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, style-arms of ditto ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, style-arms :— 
all magnified, . 
