linear-lanceolate, quite entire glabrous, three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter at the broadest part, gradually narrowed 
into a rather long petiole and to the acuminate apex, bright 
green, with a yellow midrib; margins scarcely waved ; cau/ine- 
leaves three to six inches long, gradually narrowed from a 
broad sessile base to a very fine point, erect, keeled to the 
midrib, margins even. Peduncies slender, green or purplish. 
Heads two to two and a half inches in diameter, rose- 
purplish ; involucre cylindric, tumid at its base, hoary with 
a white down; outer scales broadly ovate, with a recurved 
acuminate apex, green with pale margins ; inner twice or 
thrice as long, linear-oblong, with broad scarious margins. 
Flowers numerous. Corolla-tube slender, bearded below the 
mouth ; limb as long, linear, 5-toothed. Achenes (unripe) 
fimbriate, grooved, the ridges crenulate ; pappus-hairs about 
twenty, all plumose halfway up, five or six stronger than the 
oe and scabrid from above the middle to the apex.— 
Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, unripe achene and pappus :—both magnified. 
