Female florets (if any) oblong, obscurely three-toothed.
Chives. Of the hermaphrodite florets; five threads, hair-like, very small. Tips forming a tubular cylinder.
Pointal in either; Seed-bud egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summits two, oblong, rolled back.
Seed-vessel none. Empalement closing into a cone.
Seeds of hermaphrodite florets solitary, egg-shaped. Feather hairy, long. Females like the hermaphrodites.
Receptacle naked, flat.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Senecio foliis sinuatis, integris, discoloribus; corollis purpureis; radice tuberosa.
Groundsel with obtusely indented leaves entire and two-coloured; blossoms purple; root tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.