C O R EO P S IS R O S E A .
SYBILS s e e
COREOPSIS ROSEA.
ROSE-COLOURED COREOPSIS.
Syngenesia frmtranea, Linn. Corymbiferae, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix double, both many-leaved (8 to 12) interior equal, sub-coriaceous and coloured.
Receptacle palleaceous, scales flat. Seed compressed, emarginate, bidentated,
dentures rarely awned. Nutt.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Small and very smooth; stem mostly simple; leaves linear, entire, axils leafy;
flowers few, long-pedunculate, dichotomal and terminal; rays red, unequally
3-toothed. Nutt.
R oot perennial. Stem very smooth, round, yellowish, simple and
branched. Leaves opposite, connate, ciliated at their point of union,
about two or three inches long and an eighth of an inch broad, channelled,
often inclining to be pinnatifid; the pinnseform segments arcuate.
Axils leafy, and sometimes giving origin to small, imperfect
branches. Flowers from three to six and eight, most commonly
