Mosigia
ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus, similar in habit to Sonchus, with the involucre of five or six spreading leafy bracts, and the pappus consisting of very short lanceolate, ciliate, chaffy scales. The species is an erect, hardy annual, of easy culture in ordinary soil. Seeds should be sown in April, in a gentle heat, and the plants transferred to the open borders in May or June.
M. pinnatifida (pinnatifid). fl.-heads white, in loose panicles at the apices of the branches, shortly pedunculate; involucre sub-globose; receptacle small, convex. July. l. alternate, pinnatifid. h. 6in. Chili, 1823. (B. R. 1564; S. B. F. G. 229, under name of Gastrocarpha runcinata.)