obovate-spathulate and contracted into a long petiole, together 
four inches long; the cauline one to two inches long, sessile, 
cordate or auricled at the base, ovate and concave, or oblong 
and flat, or spathulate-oblong, quite entire or sinuate-toothed, 
tip rounded, sometimes mucronate. Corymés leafy, terminating 
the branches, with six to ten heads, of which one or two open 
at atime. Heads shortly and stoutly pedicelled, one and a 
half inches in diameter, golden-yellow. Jzvolucre hemisphe- 
rical, densely glandular; bracts connate below, free portions 
uniseriate or sub-biseriate, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
spreading, fringed with long glandular hairs. Legumes strap- 
shaped, truncate, with five long acute teeth. Achenes small; 
pappus hairs silvery white, slender, scabrid.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Radical leaf of the natural size; 2, outer floret; 3, style arms; 4 
pappus hair :—all magnified. 
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