Descr. Root annual? Stem one to two feet high, herba- 
ceous, erect, glabrous, as is the whole plant, striated, green, 
tinged with purple, branched upwards. Leaves three to four 
or five inches long, remote, oblong, obtuse, or the upper 
ones alone acute, semiamplexicaul at the base, of a thick 
and fleshy substance, the margin entire, or more or less 
toothed, particularly below the middle, the radical leaves 
spathulate. Branches panicled above, the branchlets corym- 
bose. Pedicels with subulate bracteas at the base. Flowers 
rather large, handsome. Involucre cylindrical, of many 
closely-placed, linear scales, sharp and discoloured at the 
point, and with a few small scales or bracteas at the base. 
Florets of the ray six to eight, rather large, spreading : those 
of the disk twenty to thirty. Style and stamens considerably 
exserted: segments of the stigma revolute. Achenia oblong, 
attenuated upwards. Pappus copious, white. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the Disc. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Achenium : mag- 
nified, 
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