shrubby, erect, glabrous, viscidulous; leaves linear-subulate, pungent, round-backed, furrowed above, gland-dotted, crowded, imbricating; heads terminal, solitary, sessile; inv. scales lanceolate, acute, viscidulous; recept. honey-combed and toothed (scarcely fimbrilliferous); achenes long, slender, angular, glabrous; pappus of many short, slender, subulate scales. A strong growing small bush, 12–18 inches high; branches curved, with rounded axils, the older ones quite bare; upper branches and twigs closely covered with erecto-patent leaves. Leaves 3/4–1 inch long, not a line wide, rigid, emitting a balsam. Heads longer than the leaves, the inner inv. scales radiating. Ray-fl. not much longer than the scales, reddish brown beneath. Style-branches truncate, pencilled at the extremity. Anthers with long tails.—A very distinct species, especially by the characters of the receptacle.
