cool greenhouse, and formed a most ornamental feature 
from the size and brilliant colouring of the heads. 
Descr. A stout erect sparingly branched herb, with a 
woody stem below, one to two feet high; sparingly clothed 
here and there with patches of snow-white wool; stem at 
the lower part as thick as the thumb, herbaceous branches 
as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves crowded, six to twelve 
inches long, by two to three broad, spreading and recurved, 
deep green above, paler beneath, lower sessile, upper deeply 
cordate and half-amplexicaul, oblanceolate, pinnatifid to 
about or beyond the middle, denticulate and ciliate ; lobes 
triangular, acute, with rounded sinus, drooping; nerves 
horizontal. Heads two to three inches in diameter, deep 
golden-yellow; involucre one-half to three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, shortly urn-shaped, green; bracts ap- 
pressed, slightly woolly, outer rounded-ovate very obtuse, 
imner oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla with a long 
very slender hairy tube, and linear ray toothed at the tip. 
Achenes one-sixth of an inch long, narrowly obovoid or 
pear-shaped, with five deep longitudinal furrows, otherwise 
smooth or very obscurely tubercled, quite black; pappus 
very soft and white.—J. D. H. ; ze 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, arms of style; 4, hairs of pappus :—all enlarged. 
