stem suffruticose at base, erect, striate, simple or branched, pilose or glabrous; leaves sessile, often ear-lobed at base, approximate, distantly pinnati-partite, the lobes on each side 3–5, linear-elongate, acute, with reflexed or revolute margin, quite entire or here and there minutely toothed, mostly glabrous; fl. branches subnude upwards and loosely paniculate-corymbose, pedicels slender, sparingly scaly; inv. calycled, of 12–15 glabrous, black-tipped scales; disc-fl. 40–50, rays 8–10; achenes angular, pubescent. 2–3 ft. high, with a subsimple, closely leafy lower stem, panicled and laxly leafy or nude above. Leaves 1–2–3 inches long, the rachis and 1/2–1 1/2 inch long lobes from 1/2–1 line wide. Pubescence scanty, white, sometimes absent. Pedicels 1–3 inches long, spreading. Inv. 4 lines long. Rays bright yellow, reflexed. I cannot distinguish S. scabriusculus, DC., which I have seen in Hb. Sd.
