ZACINTHA (so called from having been first discovered in the island of Zante, the ancient Zacinthus). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus. The species is a glabrous, divaricately-branched, hardy, annual herb, of simple culture. ZACINTHA verrucosa (warted). fl.-heads yellow, rather small; involucre narrow, the inner bracts folded, the outer ones spreading; receptacle flat, naked; florets all ligulate, truncately five-toothed at apex; achenes glabrous. Summer. l., radical ones lyrate; cauline ones few, alternate, amplexicaul, more entire. h. 6in. to 12in. Mediterranean region. (S. F. G. 820.)