By Pursh this plant was referred to Actinella, by 
Sprengel to Helenium! Nuttall has constituted it a new 
genus; but Mr. Douglas has ascertained that it is not 
distinct from Eriophyllum. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, in May last. 
A spreading, decumbent plant, forming broad, dense 
patches. Stems round, woolly, somewhat flexuose. Leaves 
decurrently pinnatifid, cut, with obtuse segments, above 
deep green, sparingly woolly, beneath covered with white 
wool. Heads on long stalks, axillary and terminal. Jn- 
volucrum woolly, campanulate, angular, 8-toothed. e- 
ceptacle conical, honey-combed. Jorets of the ray 8, 
female, ligulate, yellow, oblong, 3-toothed at the apex, 
with a short glandular tube; ovariwm smooth, arcuate, 
roundish, square; pappus short, paleaceous, 4-toothed ; 
style short; stigmata 2, linear, recurved.  lorets of the 
disk hermaphrodite, tubular, yellow, externally glandular ; 
limb campanulate, 5-toothed, about equal to the tube; 
anthers with an appendage at the apex, but none at the 
base; ovarium and pappus as in the ray. Style slightly 
incrassated at the base, inserted in a small disk. Stig- 
mata 2, linear, recurved, channelled inside, a little tufted 
at the apex. 
J.L. 
