Encelia
(from egchelion, a little eel; in allusion to the appearance of the seeds). SYN. Pallasia (of L'Heritier). ORD. Compositae. A genus embracing about a score species of branched, villous, pubescent, or tomentose herbs, sometimes shrubby at the base, natives of Mexico or Western America, from Chili to California. Flower-heads yellow, violet, or purplish, radiate, mediocre or rather large, long-pedunculate at the tips of the branches, rarely smaller and irregularly panicled; involucral bracts in two or three series; ray florets spreading, entire or shortly toothed. Leaves opposite, or the upper ones rarely nearly all alternate, entire, toothed, or lobed. E. canescens, the only species calling for mention here, is a pretty, dwarf, greenhouse sub-shrub, thriving in loamy soil. Cuttings, inserted under a glass, will strike readily, if not over-watered.
E. canescens (hoary). fl.-heads orange; involucral scales villous, ciliated. July. l. broadly ovate, entire, obtuse, softly canescent. h. 1 1/2ft. Peru, 1786. (B. R. 909.)