lateral nerves. Inflorescence somewhat corymbose, the 
peduncles downy, slightly thickened upwards. Involucre 
simple, of about sixteen lanceolato-subulate scales, not 
longer than the disk, united below into a flattened base. 
Flowers large, showy, bright yellow. Florets of the disk 
short, tubular, glandular above and five-toothed, teeth 
erect, those of the ray twelve to fourteen, patent, then 
reflexed, cuneate, with from three to five large teeth at 
the extremity. Receptacle hemispherical, with lanceolate, 
chaffy, rather jagged scales at the margin. Fruit short, 
bluntly tetragonal, clothed with small, white, chaffy scales, 
and crowned with about seven or eight upright, larger, 
broadly subulate ones, constituting the pappus. 
A native of North America, and by no means an uncom- 
mon inhabitant of our Gardens, but I am not aware that 
any good figure of it is in existence. It flowers in the au- 
tumnal months, as the name implies, and is an ornament, 
especially valuable at that season, to our flower-borders. 
Fig. 1. Inferior Leaf. 2. Floret of the Disk. 3, Scale of the circum- 
ference of the Disk. 4. Floret of the Ray. 5. Fruit, crowned with its 
scaly Pappus.—Magnified. 
