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curiously tessellated character of those of the native plan t, 

 so well illustrated in Dr. Balfour's figure, in which als(^ ■■^) 

 the leaves are crowded at the end of the branches. The ' 

 flower-heads, too, are twice the size of those of native ' 

 specimens. These differences are the effects of the wide]; f 

 '\yerse conditions of the plant on the arid scorched vocki ? 

 of its island home, and in the temperate warmth and i^p. 

 moisture of a house in Scotland. J 



Descr. — A glabrous, dichotomously branched undershrub, 

 about three feet high ; bracts woody, closely tessellately 

 scarred. Leaves two to two and a half inches long, 

 narrowed below into a long, flattened petiole, three- rarely 

 four-partite ; segments narrowly linear, obtuse, one-nerved, 

 bright green. Heads axillary, solitary, or in terminal 

 corymbs ; peduncles slender, as long as the leaves. 

 Involucre hemispheric, ecalyculate ; bracts eight to ten, 

 oblong, erect, connate to the middle, tips rounded, her- 

 baceous. J^ecepfacZe minutely toothed. May -flowers about ^ 

 twelve ; tube short ; ligule half an inch long, linear-oblong, i 

 recurved, golden-yellow. Disk-flowers orange-yellow, five- j 

 lobed, tube broadly campanulate above the middle ; ' 

 anthers exserted. Acliene oblong, compressed, pubescent ; 

 pappus short, bristles hirsute. — J, D. H. 



Fig. 1, ray-flower; 2, disk-flower ; 3, hairs of pappus ; 4, stamens; 5, sty lo- 

 arnifi of dissk-flower :— a^/ enlarged. 



