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“quite glabrous; stem herbaceous, erect, angle-striate, corymbose at top; leaves petiolate, lyrate, the lateral lobes on each side 2–3, small, entire or few-toothed, the terminal lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, tapering to each end, coarsely serrate, obliquely penninerved, rigid; corymb compound, much-branched; pedicels slender, scaly; heads about 12-fl., the rays few and very minute; inv. calycled, of 8 scales; achenes glabrous. Allied to S. serratuloides, but with much more coarsely serrate leaves, smaller fl. heads, and very minute, inconspicuous rays, shorter than their style. I have only seen a small fragment in Hb. Sd.