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expanded, deciduous. Rays very large and spreading,
imbricate, obovate, deeply and unequally 5-toothed,
sterile. Florets o f the disk tubular, funnel-shaped,
5-toothed, hermaphrodite; nerves alternating with the
teeth. Stamens 5 : filaments distinct, slender: anthers
connected into a tube, naked: pollen bright yellow.
Style smooth, exserted. Stigmas 2, revolute, fimbriate.
Seeds oblong, flattened, slightly keeled, smooth. P a p pus
of two short crested teeth.
We are obliged to the kindness of Robert Barclay,
Esq. of Bury-hill, near Dorking, for the specimen
from which our drawing was made; it flowered in his
splendid collection in August last, and had been received
the Spring of the present year from North Ame-
rma, sent by Mr. Hogg from Nerv York as a new species,
under the name that we have adopted; it is certainly
a very different plant from any that we find
described, and makes a fine Autumn flowering plant
for the flower garden, thriving well in the common
garden soil, and attaining to the height of two to four
feet, according to the soil and situation in which it is
grown; it may be increased by dividing the root, or
by seeds; or cuttings planted in a shady situation will
strike root readily.
In Professor Sprengel’s third Volume of the Systema
Vegteabilium,we observe that he has adopted the genus
Calliopsis of Reichenbach, which we gave as a synonym
to Coreopsis tinctoria; to it he also refers C. rosea,
nudata, and palmata of Nuttall; the genus is only distinguished
from Coreopsis by its naked seed.
1. T h e Involucre, showing the double set o f leaflets. 2. Receptacle divided
in t “7 7 ® ch a ff between the florets, which are taken’
out. 3. One o f the scales o f chaff. 4. F lo re t sp read open, to show th e nerves
a lte rn a tin g with the te e th . 5. In sid e view o f the same, showing the 5 connected
anthers and distinct filaments. 6. Seed, with its 2 crested te eth , te rmin a ted by
the Style , and two revolute Stigmas. 7. Seed o f th e ray. i- !