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COREOPSIS* Atkinsonian«. 



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Perennial Dyer's Coreopsis. 



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SYNGENESIA POLVGAMIA. 



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ATaf. orrf. Composite.. § Corymbiferae Jussieu.-^ilntroduction to the 



ural system of botany, p. 197,) 



COREOPSIS.—SuprH, vol. 1. p. 7. 



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C. ^<Ai«5onLa; foliii glaberrimis, radicalibus l>>p5\"«<;'fid'' ! . *^'"!'";' 



ssepifis macu- 



/it kin Somalia ; tolii^. giaoeiTiniib, iau»-a»^"- ^'K: " . 

 pinnatis iaciniis lineaiibus spatulatis, floscuhs radii basi 

 latis irregulariter 3-lobis, radice perenni. \. 



C. Atkinsoniana. Douglas. ^.^ /, / .-^j^ /^/>;«;;c 



Perennis. Folia atroviridia: glaberrima ; radical.a tz/.t«na i/rf«, W « 



ohlongo-linearMs obtusis) caulina oppo«7a, i>mna/a, /acmiis '"'.^"''^-f « "^ 

 Vaululhm memBranaceis ; interlus 8-pAy//um, tampanulntum, fohohs omf 5, 



;«e.2«aZi^er trilobi, nunc basi brunneo maculati nunc ^^if''';^^;^^^ 

 purpureo-brunneus. Vale^receptaculijiliformes, brunnece , Jlosculorum longi 



tudine. Ovaiia compressa, marginata. Pappus 0. 



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A native ofa place called Mew ries Iskn^ '\1^\''IZ 

 Columbia, where it was found growing abundantly in the 



year 



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At first sight it resembles C. tinc^ona so much as o 

 seem a slight variety only of that species ; but .^pon a more 



examination/it proves very distmct in its perenn-i 



3re branched ?tems, and less strong 

 In the early part of the summer when 



root. 



d taller more 'branched ^terns, and less strongly 



blotched flowers 



C. tinctoria is in perfec 



attention ; but when the 



this will attract but 

 of the former 



past 



away. Coreopsis Atkinsonia becomes 

 but a yet more interesting beauty. 



deed 



♦ See fol. 1228 



