Descr. A low bushy shrub, one to two feet high, with 
numerous ascending corymbosely arranged branches springing 
from a woolly rootstock, covered with soft rather appressed 
woolly down. Leaves very uniform throughout the plant, 
about one inch long, suberect or recurved, once or twice 
pinnatifid; lobes spreading and recurved, linear-subulate, 
aristulate, nerveless. Head one inch in diameter, peduncled, 
solitary or rarely three to four together in a lax corymb; 
peduncle naked. Jnvolucre hemispherical, one-third of an 
inch in diameter, green; scales numerous, imbricate, 
appressed, linear-subulate, aristulate, coriaceous. Receptacle 
alveolate. Ray-flowers twenty to thirty, spreading horizon- 
tally, close-set, corolla-tube slender; limb narrowly linear- 
oblong, notched. Disk-flowers tubular, with a campanulate 
five-toothed limb. Style-arm of ray slender, truncate ; of the 
disk oblong, obtuse, papillose. | Achenes between ovoid and 
turbinate, silky, flattened ; pappus bristles unequal, more or 
less rufous, shining.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-, and 2, disk-flowers :—enlaryed. 
