stem suffruticose, erect, virgate, thinly white-woolly, leafy, corymbiferous; leaves more or less petioled, pinnati-partite or pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 2–4, linear or lance-oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, albo-tomentose beneath, either tomentose or glabrate above; upper leaves sessile; corymb subsimple, few-headed, the pedicels long; inv. cobwebbed or glabrate, calycled, of many scales; heads many-fl., rays “3–5, flat, not revolute,” or none. Stem 1–2 ft. high, pale. Leaves 3–5 inches long, the rachis 1–4 lines wide; lobes 1/2–1 inch long, 1–2 lines wide. Corymb 3–8-headed. Heads 5–6 lines long, and nearly equally broad. I have not seen rays on the few specimens examined.