RUDBECKIA. 427 



received a taste for the science of botany from 

 the foundation that had beetl previously laid by 

 his worthy countrymen, after whom this plant is 

 no\V- called in every part of the world, where the 

 European languages are known. We have there- 

 fore placed it as the emblem of justice in the 

 Dictionary of Floral Symbols. 



These flowers are placed in the third order of 

 the nineteenth class of the sexual system, because 

 the florets of the disk are bisexual, and those of 

 the margin neuter, which is conspicuous, in the 

 Rudbeckia Fiirjnirea. This species is a native 

 of Carolina and Virginia, from whence it was 

 introduced by the Rev. John Banister previous 

 to the year 1699 ; and although it is indigenous 

 to warmer climes, it flourishes in the open par- 

 terres of the British gardens. It rarely, however, 

 ripens its seed with us, and is therefore propa- 

 gated by parting the roots either in the autumn 

 or in the month of March ; it loves an open ex- 

 position, and a light free earth. The petals of 

 this flower are of a singular shape, being pen- 

 dulous and curling inwards, having the appear- 

 ance of so many pieces of narrow ribbon notched 

 at the end ; the colour is nearer to a light crim- 

 son than to purple. This is the second flower 

 which Curtis figured in his Botanical Magazine. 



