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RUDBECKIA COLUMNARIS. HlGH-CROWNED 

 RUDBECKIA. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Frustranea. 



Generic Chara&er. 



Recept. paleaceum, conicum. Pappus margine 4-dentato. Cat. 

 duplici ordine fquamarum. 



Specific Cbaracler and Synonym. 



RUDBECKIA cohimnaris ; foliis pinnatifidis : foliolis lanceo- 

 latis, exterioribus ordinatim majoribus, receptaculo cylin- 

 draceo elongate 



RUDBECKIA cohimnaris ; caule ftriclo fimplici fummitate 

 paucifloro, pedunculis elongatis, foliis pinnatifidis incifis, 

 laciniis linearibus, calyce fimplici, 5-phyllo, radiis 5—8, 

 difco cylindraceo elongato. 



This new fpecies of Rudbeckia was introduced, we believe, 

 by Mr. Nuttall, from the country of the Miflburi; our 

 drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Melfrs. J. and J. T. Fk as e r, 

 in Sloane-Square. It is fweet-fcented, of low (la'ture, and but 

 little branched. Flowers in Augult and September. Root 

 perennial and hardy, "but it may be fafeft to preferve fome under 

 a frame during the winter. 



