thickened with a few oblong oil-glands, and a few subulate cilia 
towards the base. Heads very numerous, crowded, shortly 
peduncled, half to three-quarters inch in diameter, golden- 
yellow. Involucre cylindric, of about eight erect linear obtuse 
coriaceous bracts that are convex and smooth on the back. Kay- 
flowers about eight, tube short, slender; limb elliptic, ob- 
tusely notched at the apex.  Disk-flowers with a slender 
puberulous tube and campanulate 5-toothed limb. Style of 
ray with two linear obtuse awns ; of disk, slightly thickened, | 
truncate, and notched. Achene linear, cylindric, pubescent. — 
Pappus in our specimens of very minute scales.—/. Dy, #4. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, head; 3, disk-flower; 4, ray-flower; 5, achene :—<all enlarged. 
