Eremosis littoralis Gleason

Eremosis littoralis (Brand.) Gleason
Vernonia littoralis Brand. Erythea 7: 3. 1899.
Stems shrubby, slightly pubescent, especially above; leaf-blades broadly ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, short-acuminate, almost entire, obtuse or broadly acute at base, very minutely pilose above, softly pubescent and resinous-dotted on the surface beneath and pilose with spreading brown hairs on the veins; petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence freely branched, essentially leafless, loose and open; heads (7-)8-flowered, on short peduncles; involucre broadly turbinate, 7 mm. high; middle and outer scales subacute to acute, mucronate or barely apiculate, ciliate; inner scales oblanceolate, 6.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, almost scarious at the margin, thinly ciliate, minutely puberulent and sparsely resinous on the back, pale straw-colored with green midvein; achencs broadly turbinate, glabrous; pappus white, fragile, deciduous, 5.5 mm. long, the outer series filiform, 1-1.3 mm. long.