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Cauiiopsis TINCToRIA: var, atropurpurea. 
- Dyeine Caxuiopsis; dark-flowered var. — 
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Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA F’RUSTRANEA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir. ) 
Generic Character. 
Achenium obcompressum, omnino calvum, intus curva- 
tum, apice truncatum, anguste bialatum, disco-epigyno mi-_ 
nuto, alis concoloribus, integerrimis. | Stylus disci ramis 
truncatis apiceque solo penicillatis—Herbe Boreali-Amer- 
icane, glabre, foliis magis minusve sectis ; capitulis geminis 
v. corymbosis, radio luteo basi macula atropurpurea notato 
v. roseo ; involucris biserialibus, serie interiori gamophylla. 
Less. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Catuiopsis* tamctoria ; caule ramosissimo foliisque glaber- 
rimis, radicalibus pinnatis foliolis spathulato-lanceo- 
latis, caulinis bi-tripinnatifidis summisque 3- partitis 
linearibus, pedunculis subcorymbosis, flosculis radii 
inciso-dentatis. — mel 65 
Cauuiopsis bicolor. “ Reichenb.”—Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 
3. p. 61. 
ovms tinctoria. Nutt. Journ. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1821, 
p. 114. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2512. Bot. Reg. t. 846. 
Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t.72. Bart.’ Fl. of N. Am. ». 2. 
t. 45. 
(6.) floribus atropurpureis, nune limbo fulvo circumdatis. 
(Tab. nostr. 3511.) 
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* From xaddos, beauty, and ox, an appearance ; I presume, from the 
beautiful appearance of the blossoms. 
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