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COREOPSIS* aurea. 
Golden Coreopsis. 
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SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Nat. ord. COMPOSITE. 
COREOPSIS.— Suprà, vol. 1. fol. 7. 
C. aurea ; foliis serratis: radicalibus tripartitis; caulinis trifidis integrisve 
lanceolato-linearibus. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 3. 252. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2252. 
Pursh. Am. sept. 2. 568. 
C. trichosperma 8 aurea. Nutt. gen. 2. 180. 
Biennis, tripedalis, stricta, parúm ramosa, capitulis paucis conspicuis 
versùs fastigium coronata. Folia linearia, pubescentia, 3-5-partita, serrata, 
opposita. Radii 8, oblongi, subintegri, aurei, involucro 3-plò longiores. 
Fructus cuneatus, ferè glaber, apice bicornis. 
This has long disappeared from our Gardens, after 
having been introduced in 1785, according to the Hortus 
Kewensis, by the late Lord Tankerville. Recently it has 
been again recovered by the Horticultural Society, to whom 
it was sent by Mr. Thomas, of New York, at the special 
request of Mr. Sabine. We trust it will now be preserved. 
It is a hardy biennial, remarkable for the beauty of its 
heads of flowers, which are large, bright yellow, and sup- 
ported by long slender stalks. 
The species was originally described in the first volume 
of the Hortus Kewensis; it has been subsequently adopted 
by Willdenow and other Botanists as a doubtful plant; 
Pursh does not appear conscious of having seen it; but 
Mr. Nuttall has rightly judged its affinity to be with 
* From xégss, a tick, and ss, resemblance ; on account of the resemblance 
of the fruit, which, when sticking to the coats of animals, is very like the 
insects that infest them. 
