Compilation
Ursinia filicaulis

half-herbaceous or suffruticose, glabrescent; stems diffuse or ascending, often rooting from the lower nodes; leaves sub-bipinnati-partite, the lobes linear, acute or mucronate, spreading, either all compound or the lower ones simple, the upper 2–3-fid or pinnate; pedunc. elongate; outer inv. scales ovate-acuminate or sublanceolate, very acute, glabrous; paleæ tipped with a roundish-reniform scale, the outer ones sheathing, the inner narrow, linear-spathulate; rays usually more or less discoloured; inner disc-fl. often (if not always) abortive. 6–12 inches high, diffusely branched. Stems sometimes cobwebby (U. albicaulis). Leaves 1–2 inches long, mostly bipinnate, sometimes very slender (U. filicaulis). Pedunc. 3–6 inches long or longer (U. pedunc.). Rays 3/4 inch long, sometimes concolourous, but more commonly faintly, or fully discoloured. It is known from U. paradoxa by the inv. scales and paleæ. I can find no limits between the four species of DC. here united. Lessing's plant (in Hb. Thunb.) is evidently the same, though not being in fruit, he has mistaken its genus.