stem very short, thick and woody, tomentose, closely marked with leaf-scars; leaves crowded at the apex of the stem, obovate-oblong, cuneate-attenuate at base, with subrevolute margins, glabrous and nerveless above, tomentose, strongly ribbed and penninerved, with netted interspaces beneath; fl. stem pedunculoid, elongate, glabrous, very laxly leafy, its lower leaves similar to the cauline, but smaller, upper much depauperated; heads 1–2, long-pedicelled; inv. very tomentose, connivent, urceolate, its scales densely tomentose, mucronate or subacuminate, closely imbricate; achenes? Leaves 5–7 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. wide, much narrower than in O. Arbuscula. Flowering stem 2–3 ft. high, striate, minutely tomentulose, becoming glabrous. I have only seen immature fl. heads and old, denuded receptacles. Flowers unknown. The habit is completely similar to that of the other species; the inv. very different.
