with H. multiflorus, (Bot. Mag. t. 227,) from which it princi- 
Ily*differs in the smaller flowers and much fewer rays, and 
in the lower leaves not being cordate, is noticed. It is a 
hardy perennial, an inhabitant of the northern and middle 
States'of North America and of Canada, and blossoming in 
the autumn."; By‘luxuriance the scales of the involuere are 
enlarged and become leafy, and, as it appears to me, have 
given rise to the Linnean H. frondosus. 
Descr. Stem four to five feet high; much branched 
upwards, and there principally scabrous. Leaves all op- 
posite, (except the uppermost ones, which are smaller and 
narrower and less distinctly serrated, and which as arising 
from the flower-bearing stalks, may rather be considered 
bracteas,) ovate, but tapering below so as to be some- 
what rhomboidal, three-nerved above the base, acuminated, 
coarsely and distantly serrated, scabrous on both sides, of 
a rather lively green above, paler beneath, but scarcely 
 atall downy, the lower one petiolated. Flowers about two 
inches across, slightly drooping. Scales of the involucre 
numerous, squarrose, linear-acuminate, ciliated at the mar- 
gin, especially below, where they are of a blackish colour, 
sometimes, in 6, becoming leafy. Receptacle slightly conical, 
chaffy : the scales linear, acute, usually quite entire, and 
nearly as long as the florets of the disk. Florets of the ray 
bright yellow, their germens abortive, destitute of pappus; 
those of the disk, orange. Anthers purple-black : their 
germens compressed, with two soft, subulate, opposite 
scales, and sometimes, two or three other minute ones. 
aaae i what , the Ray. 2. Floret of the -_ with its accompanying 
