Descr. A stout biennial erect herb, covered with lax soft 
spreading glandular hairs, often woolly at the base of the 
stem, which is four-sided. Leaves two to three inches broad, 
ovate- or orbicular-cordate, lobulate and toothed, convex, 
rugose with strongly impressed nerves, petiole longer than 
the blade; floral leaves like the cauline, but smaller. Cymes 
densely packed in the upper leaf axils, forming a rounded 
head two inches in diameter; peduncles much shorter than 
the floral leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Flowers 
half an inch long, inclined and drooping. Calyz cleft three- 
fourths of the way down into oblong-lanceolate divisions. 
Corolla ovoid, turgid, glabrous, golden yellow, mouth 
contracted ; divisions very small, subequal, broad, retuse. 
Filaments exserted, puberulous or glabrate, as on the 
ovary and style —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, anthers; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of do. :—ald 
enlarged. 
