purplish hue outside towards the tip, and blood-red within 
at the very base; disk of a darker yellow. uvolucre cam- 
panulate ; bracts imbricate, linear-oblong, scarious, white 
and transparent, with a purplish herbaceous median band. 
Ray-flowers about twenty-five, with a broad linear-oblong 
obtusely 3-toothed ligula and short glabrous tube; style- 
arms oblong, obtuse; achene linear, deeply 10-ribbed, ribs 
with narrow membranous wings; pappus short, mem- 
branous, obliquely truncate. Dish-flowers slender, 5-toothed, 
glabrous, style-arms with broad truncate tips; achenes 
narrow, like those of the ray but shorter; pappus a short 
auricle—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray; and 2, disk-flowers :—both magnified. 
