Tas. 6419. 
COREOPSIS noupara. 
Native of the Southern United States. 
Nat. Ord. Composrrm.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDES. 
Genus Corzorsis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. v. ii. p. 385.) 
Coreopsis nudata; gracillima, glaberrima, caule erecto tereti dichotome ramoso, 
foliis paucis, radicalibus elongato filiformi-subulatis cylindraceis longe 
acuminatis caulinis sparsis subulatis;brevibus, capitulis amplis, involucri 
parvuli bracteis exterioribus brevibus recurvis late oblongis obtusis, interior- 
ibus oblongo lanceolatis apices versus acutatis, floribus radii ad 8 limbo late 
obovato apice obtuse 2~4-lobo roseo v. purpureo, fl. disci flavis dentibus re- 
curvis papillosis, acheniis quadrato-oblongis hispidulis anguste alatis acutis 
brevibus ciliatis. 
C. nudata, Nutt. Gen. vol. ii. p. 180; et in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. New Ser. 
vol. vil. p. 360; Torr. § Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 348; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 
574; Chapm. Fl. 8. United States, p. 236. 
Cautiopsis nudata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 611. : 
A singularly beautiful plant, with the foliage of a rush, and 
the flower of a small Dahlia, or of a very large Anemone of 
the Japonica group; a native of swamps and ponds in the 
pine-barrens near the coast of the Southern United States 
from Georgia to Florida. It has been referred to a small 
section of the genus, to which the name of Cosmella has 
been given; but which appears to be a purely artificial 
group. The root is almost tuberous, and the leaves like 
those of a very slendef rush, they are stated to be fistular in 
a note attached to dried specimens communicated by the late 
Dr. Torry, but they are certainly solid in the specimens 
cultivated at Kew. ; 
The seeds of Coreopsis nudata were received from Professor 
Asa Gray, and were sown ina pan of moist soil in a warn 
pit, the plants thus raised flowered in the open air in September 
of last year. : 
Drscr. A tall very slender glabrous perennial marsh or 
APRIL Ist, 1879. 
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