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Coreopsis TincTortA. ARKANSA Co- 
REOPSIS. 
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Class and Order. 
- SYNGENESIA Potyoause Frustranea. 
Generic Character. 
Recept. aleaceum. Sem. compressa emarginata. Pap- 
pus bicornis. Cal. duplex uterque polyphyllus. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Corgopsis tinctoria; foliis oppositis; inferioribus pinnatis 
linearibus ; superioribus trifidis, calyce exteriore di- 
) midio breviore, radio basi maculato, disco discolore. 
Coreopsis tinctoria. Barton Flora of North-Amer. 2. 
t. 45. 
Descr. Root annual. Stem upright, very slender, and 
thence apt to be variously distorted ; fluted, trichotomously 
divided. Lower leaves, which fall off as the plant advances, 
opposite, odd-pinnate, with the leaflets in three or four 
distant pairs, linear, some of them irregularly divided, 
terminal one longer, and somewhat broader than the rest, 
higher up the leaves, have one pair of leaflets at the base, 
and three at the extremity, and the upper ones are simply 
ttifid, sometimes with bundles of young leaves in the axils. 
Peduncles terminal, nearly naked, one-flowered. Outer 
calyx spreading, not half the length of the inner, which 
'S upright, scariose. Radius about eight-petaled: petals 
wedge-shaped, for the most part three-toothed at the point, 
the middle tooth generally the longest, and often notched ; 
but sometimes the petal is as it were truncated, with several 
unequal teeth; colour a golden yellow, with a dark crimson 
spot 
