Pallenis
(from palea, chaff; in allusion to the chaffy receptacle). SYNS. Asteriscus, Athalmus. ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus. The species is a soft, sub-silky, villous, hardy, annual herb. For culture, see Buphthalmum. P. spinosa (spiny). fl.-heads yellow, mediocre or rather large, solitary at the tips of the branches; achenes glabrous or slightly pilose; involucre hemispherical; receptacle slightly convex. July. l. obovate-or oblong-lanceolate, alternate, entire; floral ones, or outer involucral bracts, leafy, often pungently mucronate. h. 2 1/2ft. Orient, South Europe, and North Africa, 1570. (S. F. G. 898, under name of Buphthalmum spinosum.)