Receptaculum nudum, planiusculum, punctatum.
Empalement. Common tiled; scales spear-shaped, the inner ones longer than the disk, skinny, shining, and forming the ray of the flower.
Blossom. Compound, unequal; florets with chives and pointals numerous and tubular in the disk. Female florets fewer, and tubular in the circumference.
Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-shaped, much shorter than the empalement; border with five clefts, spreading.
Individuals with only pointals, tubular the length of the hermaphrodites, five cleft, and rather smaller.
Chives. The threads in the hermaphrodites are five, and very small. Tips forming a cylinder, tubular almost the length of the florets.
Pointal. Seed-bud of the hermaphrodites short. Shaft thread-shaped, longer than the chives. Summit cloven.
Seed-bud of the female florets the same as the hermaphrodites. Shaft thread-shaped the length of the hermaphrodites. Summits two, oblong and bent back.
Seed-vessel none. Empalement scarcely changing.
Seeds oblong, and crowned with a feather.