Tas. 6462. 
COREOPSIS ARISTOSA. 
Native of the United States. 
Nat. Ord. Compostrm.—Tribe HELIaNTHOIDER. z 
Genus Corxopsis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 385.) 
Corkopsis aristosa ; annua, erecta, glaberrima v. hic illic puberula, foliis oppositis 
1-2-pinnatisectis, segmentis 5-7 distinctis lanceolatis grosse serratis acuminatis 
basin versus attenuatis et integerrimis, capitulis flavis paniculatim corymbosis, 
involucri bracteis exterioribus numerosis foliaceis linearibus patentibus tortis, 
floribus radii ad 8 limbo elliptico-lanceolato acuto, acheniis late oblongis margi- 
natis hispidulis 2-4-aristatis, 
C. aristosa, Michx. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 140; DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 572; Torr. 
et Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 340, ; 
C. aristata, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 2253. 
Diodonta aristosa, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) vol. vii. p. 360. 
This is one of the many golden-flowered plants of the 
Eastern United States, which are the glory of the autumnal 
herbaceous vegetation of that country, and are much needed 
for the decoration of our borders and beds, late in the season 
especially. It is indeed astonishing that these Coreopsises, 
with the Asters, Helianthi, Rudbeckkias, Silphiums, and 
numberless other fine North American herbaceous plants, 
all so easily grown and so handsome, should be entirely 
neglected in English gardens ; and this in favour of carpets, 
hearth-rugs, and ribbons, forming patterns of violent 
colours, which though admired, from being the fashion, on 
the lawn and borders of our gardens and grounds, would 
not be tolerated on the floor of a drawing-room or boudoir. 
Coreopsis aristosa has a wide range in the United States, 
from Michigan, one of the most northern, to western 
Louisiana in the south, according to Torrey and Gray’s 
Flora, though I do not find it included in Chapman’s Flora 
of the Southern United States. It is very near the C. 
trichosperma of the same regions, differing chiefly in the 
NOVEMBER 1st, 1879. 
