scarcely leafy and bear solitary heads. The species, which 
is perfectly hardy, promises to be a desirable acquisition for 
the rock garden ; it has a tufted habit and flowers freely. 
Drscription.—Herb, about 6 in. high; stems 1-headed, 
sparingly leafy below, elsewhere naked, greenish-purple, 
pubescent with reflexed hairs. Leaves: radical few, 
petioled, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, base rounded or 
slightly cuneate, margin 2-3-denticulate on each side, 
1{-14 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, chartaceous, triplinerved, 
shortly setulose-pubescent on both surfaces, nerves sunk 
above, raised beneath; cauline sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute, up to 1} in. long, 3 in. wide, entire or nearly so, 
shortly pubescent. Flower-heads 23 in. across; involucral 
bracts obscurely 3-seriate, recurved, linear-lanceolate, mu- 
cronulate, almost uniform, 2 in. long, 1 lin. wide, green, 
white-ciliate, pilose outside with black-based hairs, inside 
glabrous low down, adpressed pubescent upwards. Ray- 
florets about 40 ; tube obsolete, limb linear-lanceolate, 2—3-fid 
at the tip, 1 in. long, 1$-24 lin. wide, pale violet, 7-nerved ; 
style 4 in. long. Disk-florets numerous, pale yellow; tube 
in. long, green and constricted below the middle, at the 
middle sparingly pilose; lobes lanceolate, somewhat blunt, 
under 1 lin. long, orange; ovary | lin. long, pubescent ; 
pappus 2-seriate, hair of the outer series very short, under 
3 lin. long, of the inner series filiform, barbellate, } in. long. 
Fig. 1, ray-floret with portion of limb removed ; 2, disk-floret; 3 and 4, 
pappus-hairs ; 5, anthers :—a// enlarged. 
