tuberous rooted, glabrous; stem erect, herbaceous, simple or branched, leafy at base, pedunculoid and one or several headed upwards; upper leaves sessile, amplexicaul, oblong or lanceolate, toothed; medial amplexicaul, petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid; lower on long petioles, either cordate-reniform, toothed, or lyrate with 1 or several lateral, toothed lobes, and a terminal reniform one; pedunc. laxly scaly; inv. scales 10–12, naked-based, glabrous; heads discoid, homogamous; achenes long, ribstriate, setulose, beaked. Quite like C. cymbalarifolius, var. α., except that the heads are discoid. Possibly a mere variety. I venture to unite DC.'s “ Br. trachycarpus ,” which, by description, can scarcely be different from the present.
