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Rudbeckia purpurea. Purple 
Rudbeckia. 
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CA?/j and Order. 
Syngenesia Poly gam i a Frustranea, 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum paleaceum, conicum. Pappus margine quadri- 
dentato. Calyx duplici ordine fquamarum. 
Specific Characler and Synonyms. 
RUDBECKIA purpurea foliis lanceolato-ovatis alternis indi- 
vifis, radii petalis bifidis. Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. 
p. 651. Sp. PL p. 1280. 
DRACUNCULUS virginianus latifolius, petalis florum Ion- 
giffimis purpurafcentibus. MoriJ. Hiji. 3. 
p. 42. J. 6. t. 9. f. 1. 
This fpecies differs from the other plants of the genus, in 
the colour of its outermoft petals, which are long, narrow, 
purple, and pendulous, and not unaptly refemble fmall pieces 
of red tape. Notwithftanding it is a native of the warm cli- 
mates Carolina and Virginia, it fucceeds very well with us in 
an open border: but, as Mr. Miller very juftly obferves, it 
will always be prudent to fhelter two or three plants under a 
common hot-bed frame in winter, to preferve the kind, be- 
caufe in very fevere winters, thofe in the open air are fome- 
times killed. It flowers in July. As it rarely ripens its 
feeds with us, the only mode of propagating it, is by parting 
the roots; but in that way the plant does not admit of much 
increafe, 
