branches tomentose or pubescent towards the apex, soon becoming glabrous; leaves 1–2 1/2 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper 1/2 or 2/3, glabrous or the younger sometimes pubescent; ultimate segments 1/4– 1/2 in. long, terete, acutely mucronate; heads solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate, about 3/4 in. in diam., many-flowered; peduncle 1/4–1 in. long, pilose or villous, bearing lanceolate acutely acuminate minutely pustulate glabrous purplish bracts 2–3 lin. long; involucral bracts 3–4 1/2 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, pilose or villous; floral bracts similar, keeled; flowers straight in bud; perianth-tube 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 4–5 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong, villous, that of the posticous segment more shortly pubescent; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, filiform; ovary villous; style 3–4 lin. long, glabrous; stigma 1 lin. long, subclavate, obtuse, furrowed. null
