Involucrum of the female flowers oblong, cylindrical, imbricate,
with strap-shaped, blunt, scariose, silvery, shining
scales, generally tinged with pink. Receptacle naked and
dotted. Female florets slender, filiform, lower half greenish
white, swollen a little above the base, gradually contracted
upwards, and of a red colour ; the limb small, oblique,
and furnished with 5 linear, unequal, blunt teeth.
Stigmas semicylindrical, blunt, smooth. Achenia linear,
compressed, smooth. Pappus white, composed of many
slender, capillary, minutely toothed rays. The male flowers
I have not seen.—D . D on .
