ANACYCLUS (changed from Ananthocyclus, compounded of a, privative, anthos, a flower, and kyclos, a circle; with reference to the circle of ovaries which surrounds the disk). ORD. Compositae. A genus embracing about ten species of hardy or half-hardy, annual herbs (or with a perennial caudex), inhabiting South Europe, North Africa, and the Orient. Flower-heads radiate, mediocre, pedunculate at the tips of the branches; in-volucre hemispherical or broadly campanulate, the bracts in few series; receptacle convex or conical; ray florets white, yellow, or purplish, in one series, fertile or sterile, sometimes deficient; disk yellow, fertile; achenes obovate, glabrous, the outer ones two-winged. Leaves alternate, twice or thrice pinnatisect. A radiatus purpurascens, the only plant of the genus in general cultivation, is a very attractive and floriferous, hardy annual, thriving under ordinary treatment. ANACYCLUS radiatus purpurascens (rayed, purplish). fl. heads large; ray florets white or yellow above, the under side purplish. Summer. l. bipinnatifid, with small, linear segments. 1883. (R.G. 1074.)