Tas. 6241. 
COREOPSIS (TuckERMANNIA) MARITIMA. 
Native of California. 
Nat, Ord. Composrrz,—Tribe HELIANTHOIDE, 
Genus Corn psis, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ti., p. 885). 
Corzorsis (‘luckermannia) maritima ; perennis, glaberrima, caule elato robusto, 
foliis sparsis bipinnatifidis, segmentis recurvo-divaricatis anguste linearibus 
acutis integerrimis, pedunculis validis 1-floris, capitulis aureis 3-34 poll. 
diam., involucri exterioris ‘bracteis 6-8 herbaceis patentibus anguste 
lineari-oblongis, interioris bracteis membranaceis 8-10 2-seriatis appressis 
oblongis obtusis coloratis, receptaculi paleis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, 
fl. radii ad 20 foemineis, ligulis late lineari-oblongis minute 3-dentatis, fi. 
disci tubo angusto medio barbellato limbo parvo, acheniis calvis com- 
pressis levibus. 
C, (Tuckermannia) maritima, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. New Ser., vol. vii., 
p. 363; Torr. et Gray, Fl. N. Am., vol. ii., p 355. 
Leptocrne maritima, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts § Sc., vol. vii., p. 358. 
A native of maritime rocks in California, where it was 
discovered by Nuttall in 1834-5, and introduced by him into 
American gardens, and from whom we have dried specimens 
collected at St. Barbara and at Utah. There are also 
specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium, collected earlier still 
by Coulter, but from what precise locality is not indicated. 
The specimens here figured were received from Mr. Thompson, 
of Ipswich, and flowered both at Kew and at Ipswich in 
September, 1873-4. It is described asa perennial in America, 
but is of annual duration in this country. It must not be 
confounded with the Leptogyne maritima, A. Gray (fide Noblet 
in Rev. Hortic., 1873, p. 330), a plant of similar habit, but 
with very much broader and shorter ovate outer involucral 
bracts, and six to nine very much broader ray flowers, and 
which is nothing but Agavista calliopsidea, A. Gray, a genus 
referred to a section of Coreopsis in the “Genera Plantarum,” 
but which Prof. Gray still regards as distinct. : 
It is to be observed that the character of the outer invo- 
lucre of C. maritima agrees with that of Leptogyne as 
JuLy lst, 1876. 
