Descr. Annual. Stems weak, branched, and, as well 
as the foliage, slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, linear, the 
lowermost ones dentato-pinnatifid, the upper ones gradu- 
ally becoming entire. Flowers terminal, solitary, large. 
Involucre hairy, with the scales in two series ; outer ones 
larger, lanceolate, the extremjties reflexed, as many as there 
are radical florets, each of which has its germen surrounded 
by the base of one of these scales ; inner scales smaller, 
about twice as many as there are outer. Receptacle naked. 
Florets of the ray ten to twelve, ligulate, the limb cuneate, 
three-lobed, yellow. Germen oblongo-fusiform, compress- 
ed, glabrous, destitute of pappus. Florets of the disk 
tubular, five-toothed, yellow. Anthers exserted, black, 
branches of the stigma linear-recurved, hairy. Germen 
oblongo-fusiform, silky, crowned with a pappus, in a single 
series of paleaceous, hispid hairs. : 
Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray, with the scale of the Involucre. 2. Germen 
of ditto. 3. Floret of the Disk. 4. Hair of the Pappus :—magnified. 
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