cauline leaves much smaller, spinulose. Heads an inch to an 

 inch and a quarter in diameter, golden-yellow. Imolucral 

 scales connate at the base, the free portion spreading, re- 

 flexed, spinulose at the apex and margin, green, cobwebby. 

 Receptacle scales all acicular. Flowers all tubular, much 

 longer than the involucre; tube curved, puberulous ; limb 

 of Ave narrow spreading lobes. Anthers long, connate; 

 filaments glabrous. Style arms recurved, linear, papillose. 

 Achene glabrous ; pappus hairs connate into a short, stiff', 

 irregularly-cleft annulus. — J. I). H. 



Fig 1. Fbret and receptacle seta. 2. Achene and pappus. 3. Arms, 

 of style -.—all magnified. 



