as one’s finger, between fleshy and woody, much scarred from 
the fallen leaves. eaves from the apices of the branches only, 
deciduous, on long terete petioles, cordate, much acuminate, 
subhastate, five- to seven-lobed ; /obes very acuminate, spread- 
ing, the lower ones deflexed: the texture is between membrana- 
ceous and fleshy. Before the appearance of the leaves, or while 
they are only partially developed, the corymds of flowers occupy 
the apex of the branch, and bear several elongated, partially 
bracteolated, yellow branches, thickened below the capitulum. 
Flowers numerous, large. Involucre cylindrical, of eight to ten, 
erect, nearly equal, linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous scales, ebrac- 
teolate, or nearly so. orets of the ray five or six, rarely more, 
distant, female: ovary oblong, crowned with the hairy pappus. 
Lagule oblong, yellow, three-toothed at the apex. Style with 
two recurved stigmas. Tubular florets about fifteen. Ovary and 
pappus as in the ligulate florets. Corol/a tubular, the limd of 
five recurved linear segments. Receptacle pitted. 
Fig. 1. Involucre laid open. 2. Floret of the ray. 3. Floret of the disc: 
—magnified. 
