An herbaceous perennial? from two to three feet high: 
stem upright, round, branching, roughishly furred; branches 
alternate, lower ones sterile short and leafy, flowerbear- 
ing ones growing nearly to a level. Leaves both alternate 
and opposite, sessile linear pointed quite entire turned 
down at the edge (one-nerved?) with the nerve very promi- 
nent at the under side, 14-15 lines in length, narrow. 
Flowers at the ends of the branches, solitary; peduncles up- 
right, forming a kind of corymb. Calyx somewhat hemi- 
spherical, squarrose (ragged), manyleaved; /eaflets closely 
imbricated linearly oblong pointed, roughly furred towards 
the upper part, green at the top, reflex, outermost the 
shortest. Receptacle nearly flat, chaffy, palee (chaffs) 
oblong taper-pointed keeled smooth scariose, shorter than 
the florets of the disk. Florets of the disk deep yellow very 
numerous tubular with perfect stamens and pistil, smooth 
5-lobed, lobes ovate pointed without any nerve: anthers 
finally elevated above the orifice of the floret; germen linear 
compressed smooth slightly furred with a seedcrown of 2-3 
subulate paleze; style smooth; stigmas 2, protruded revo- 
lute. Seed linear compressed slightly furred, with a seed- 
crown of numerous subulate roughly fringed deciduous 
minute pale, among which are from 2 to 3 which are 
much longer than the rest and awnshaped, being in fact but 
little shorter than the seed itself: florets of the ray 16-20, 
ligulate, without stamen or pistil, deep yellow, tube short, 
blade or lamina elliptically oblong 3-toothed flat spreading 
many-nerved smooth, 24 lines long; germen linear thin 
smooth abortive. 
We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant from 
which the drawing was made; and have borrowed the de- 
scription from Messrs. Cavanilles and Kunth. 
