Individuals with only pointals, ligulate, spear-shaped, with three teeth.
Chives. Five hair-like threads, very short. Tips forming a hollow cylinder.
Pointal. To those with chives and pointals, seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit two-cleft, expanding.
Seed-bud to those with pointals only, oblong. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the hermaphrodites. Summits two, oblong, bent back.
Seed-vessel none. Cup scarcely changing.
Seeds to the hermaphrodites solitary, oblong, egg-shaped. Feather hairy.
Females the same as hermaphrodites.
Receptacle naked, almost flat.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Aster caulis fruticosus; foliis dentatis, subtus ferrugineis; floribus terminalibus; pedunculis unifloris, bracteatis.