Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

of figuring this beautiful little plant, which flowered at the
York Nurseries in May, 1879.
DESGK. A tufted low herb ; stems three to four inches
long, decumbent, slender, spreading from the perennial
root, then ascending, clothed with soft silky silvery hairs.
Leaves one-fourth to one-third of an inch long, lower
much shorter, loosely imbricating all round the stem and
branches from their bases to their tips. Heads solitary,
terminal, sessile, one-third to two-thirds of an inch in
diameter.. Involucre obconic ; bracts linear-oblong, obtuse,
imbricate in many series, woolly, the innermost half an
inch long and spreading, opaque and white for half their
length. Receptacles conical, smooth, naked. Flowers of the
ray in several series, tubular, slender, three-toothed; of
the disk larger, narrowly funnel-shaped, five-lobed, gla-
brous. Anther-cells with slender tails. Style-arms truncate.
Pappus-hairs few, in one series, very slightly thickened
towards the tip, scabrid.•J. D. H,
Fig. 1, Receptacle with an inner involucral bract and flower of ray and of the
disk ; 2, flower of ray and, 3, of the disk ; 4, stamen ; 5, style-arms ; 6, hair of
pappus :•all enlarged.