rootstock thick and woody, multifid; subradical leaves narrow-linear, obtuse, above thinly canescent, smooth, channelled, beneath cano-tomentose, with entire, scarcely revolute margins; pedunc. about as long as leaves, at first canous, then glabrate; invol. truncate at base, cylindro-turbinate, thinly canescent, the lobes 2–3-seriate, the outer linear-filiform, mucronulate, longer than the glabrous, ovate-acute, membranous inner ones. A dwarf plant, probably from high land, and dry, rocky ground. Leaves 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, not a line wide, none pinnatisect on our specimen. All the young parts pale, with very minute, white, downy pubescence, which rubs off in age. Heads of small size; invol. 1/2 inch long, 3–4 lines wide at top; rays about 12, yellow, with a central band beneath.
