the summer months, and recommending itself by its copi- 
ous lively yellow blossoms. 
Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stem weak, more or less 
procumbent, very much branched, with the branches oppo- 
site, slender, hairy, from the axil of almost every leaf. 
Leaves opposite, connate, linear-lanceolate, tapering, en- 
tire, hairy, especially above, and ciliated. Flowers solitary, 
upon rather long slender, terminal peduncles. Involucre 
of several, lanceolate, downy, equal leaves, in a double 
series. Florets all yellow: those of the circumference 
ligulate, the limb oval, two to three toothed ; the tube 
narrow, elongated, glandular, greenish. Germen oblong, 
a little broader upwards, compressed, glandular. Pappus 
sometimes wanting, sometimes present ; in the latter case, 
consisting of three, four, or more, usually five, subulate, 
chaffy, rough scales, which persist till the fruit is ripe. 
Style a little longer than the tube : branches of the stigma 
linear, glabrous. Florets of the disk tubular : corolla bell- 
shaped at the mouth, which is five-cleft. Germen and pap-- 
pus as in the radial florets. Style exserted : branches of 
the stigma recurved, clavate, hairy on the back at the apex, 
Receptacle conical, papillose. 
Fig. 1 Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk. 3. Scale of the Pap- 
pus. 4. Floret destitute of Pappus. 5. Section of the Involucre, to show 
the Receptacle : magnified, 
