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COREOPSIS VERTICILLATA.
WHORLED-LEAVED COREOPSIS.
Syngenesia Frustranese, Linn. Corymbiferse, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix double, both many-leaved, (8—12,) interior equal, sub-coriaceous and coloured.
Receptacle paleaceous, scales flat. Seedcompressed, emarginate, biden-
tate ; dentures rarely awned.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves verticillated, pinnated by three’s or five’s j pinnse linear, 3-parted, and indi-
vided ; disk discoloured. Willd.
Root perennial, fibrous. Plant from two to three feet high, sometimes
taller in luxuriant soils. Stem erect, leaves pinnated, in whorls
of three, five, and often opposite in pairs, particularly towards
the summit; the segments linear, from one and a half to two inches
long. Flowers handsome, rays yellow, with dark sienna disk. Grows
on high hills and mountainous lands in dry soil, from Maryland to
Carolina, and probably will be found further south. It delights in the
exposed borders of dry hilly woods; flowering from July till October.
