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radical, upright and spreading, elliptically lanceolate, ta- 
pering into a kind of footstalk atthe lower part. Flower- 
heads lateral, radical, sessile, numerously flowered, from 
spikes shortened into crowded turbinate bracteously leafy 
heads standing just above the ground. Bractes herbaceous, 
single, upright, lanceolately-tapered, topping the flowers, 
partly under ground. Flowers numerous, yellow, placed 
_ singly in the heads: corolla sixparted, rotate, outspread, 
even, as well as the germen covered on the outside by a soft 
long-haired close-pressed fur; segments oblong, pointed, 
half an inch long. Stamens standing upon the disk of the 
corolla, which is + longer, having a narrow interval be- 
tween each: filaments subulate, flexuose, yellow, converg- 
ing, but little longer than the anthers: anthers deep yel- 
low, facing inwards, adnate, linearly elongated, bluntish 
at the top, notched at the base, tipped on the outside with 
black: pollen yellow. Style columnar, stouter than the 
filaments, of a paler yellow, equal to the corolla, and 
springing from its centre-point: stigma slightly headed, vil- 
lous. Germen inferior, under ground, about + longer than 
the corolla, nearly of the diameter of the tube of a small . 
quill, dirty or brownish white, obtusely 3-cornered ; trilo- 
bular, fertile and polyspermous at the base, at the top 
lengthening into a solid sterile continuous neck (according 
to others, the tube of the flower): ovules in two rows at the 
inner corner of each cell. =. 
