slightly villous at the edge, inner upright and purple at 
the end. Hlorets of the ray violet-coloured or purplish 
blue: of the disk yellow. Pappus or seed-crown simple- 
haired, sessile. 
_ The plant has been fancied by some among the elder 
herbalists to be the flower meant by the Amellus or Amello 
of Virgil : iz 
Est etiam flos in pratis, cui nomen Amello. 
