Coreopsis. COMPOSITiE. - 289 



winged and with short setiform awns ; the outermost often awnless and pubescent, some- 

 times rugose and thick-winged. — Ximenesia enadioides, Ca,v. Ic. ii. GO, t. 178; IJC. Prodr. 

 V. 627 (under several varieties) ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Pullasia serratifolia, Smith in Kees 

 Cycl. — Low grounds, Texas and 8. Colorado to Arizona: also Florida, where it was prob- 

 ably introduced. Now widely dis])erse(l in warm regions and cult. (Mex.) 



110. ACTINOMERIS, Xutt., partly. (From ^kti's, a ray, and fiepk, 

 a part.) — Tall perennials, of the Atlantic U. S. ; the somewhat simple stems 

 (4 to 8 feet high) leafy to the top, below mostly winged in the manner of 



Verbesina by decurrent prolongations from the base of the leaves ; these alter- 

 nate or some lower ones occasionally 02:)posite, lanceolate or broader, acuminate 

 at both ends, pinnately veined, serrate, thinnish : heads loosely corymbose- 

 paniculate : flowers yellow or white, produced in late summer. — Gray, Proc. 

 x\m. Acad. xix. 11. Actiuomeris, spec. 1, Nutt. Gen. ii. 181, & § 1, 2, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. ii. 335. 



A. squarrosa, Nutt. 1. c. Heads witli 2 to 8 irregular yellow rays; disk-flowers yellow: 

 iuvulucral bracts linear to narrowly spatulate : akenes mostly with broad and firm wings : 

 pappus of 2 or in marginal akeues 3 awns. — Ell Sk. ii. 41.3 (excl. var. alba) ; Torr. & Gi-ay, 

 1. c. (forms alternifolia and oppositi folia, the latter of rare occurrence) ; Meehan, Nat. Fl. 

 i. t. 39. A. alternifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 575. A. oppositifolia, Fresenius, Ind. Sem. Ilort. 

 Francf. 1836, an occasional form. Coreopsis alteniifolia, L. Spec. ii. 909 ; Jacq. Hort. Viud. 

 t. 110. C. procera, Ait. Kew. iii. 253. C. acuta, Pursli, Fl. ii. 569'? Verbesina Coreopsis, 

 Mielix. Fl. ii. 134. — Rich or alluvial soil, either moist or dry, W. New York to Iowa, south 

 to Florida and Louisiana. Wholly wingless-stemnaed specimens occasionally occur. 



A. alba, Toru. & Gkay,1. c. Pather smoother : heads smaller : rays none ; disk-flowers dull 

 white : akenes oftener wingless or narrowly winged : awns of the ])appus not rarely 3 or 4, 

 and commonly some interposed small ones or aristellate squamelhe! — A. squarrosa, var. 

 alba, Nutt. 1. c. ; Ell. 1. c. A. alternifolia, var. alba, DC. 1. c. Athanasia paniculata, Walt. 

 Car. 201. Verbesina Coreopsis, var. alba, Michx. 1. c. — Alluvial soil, S. Carolina to Louisi- 

 ana, near the coast : rare in herbaria. Specimens from Dr. Mellichamp, S. Carolina, all 

 exhibit tlie squamcllate-aristellate pajipus, not before known in this genus. 



111. S YNEDRELL A, Ga-rtn. (SweSpta, a sitting together, the heads in 

 the original species being collected at the nodes.) — Tropical annuals; with branch- 

 ing stems, opposite and more or less serrate petioled leaves, and ^mall heads of 

 yellow flowers, the rays short. — Fruct. ii. 456, t. 171; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. GO. 

 Synedrella, Oligogyne in part, & Ccdyj)trocarpus (Less.), DC. Prodr. v. 629. 



S. vialis, Gray. Diffuse or procuml)ent, slender, strigulose-hirsute or more hairy : leaves 

 ovate, about inch long : heads only 3 lines long, solitary or scattered, some subsessile, others 

 slender-peduncled : principal bracts of the involucre 4 or 5, ovate or oblong : rays 5 to 8, 

 with oblong e.xserted ligule : akenes or many of them tuberculate-scabrous at maturity, 

 some of the outer occasionally trigonal, mostly flattened, and witli or more commonly with- 

 out a coriaceous and thickisli undulated wing-like border, the central ones narrower and 

 marginless : pappus of 2 or sometimes 3 rigid diverging awns, witli occasionally one or two 

 additional teeth or squamelhc, arising from an obscure border. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 217. 

 Cahjptrocarpus vialis. Less. Syn. 221, & Linn. ix. 269. Oligogtjne Tampicana, DC. Prodr. v. 

 629; Deless. Ic. Sel. ix. t. 38; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 111. Zexmenia hispidula, Buckley in 

 Proc. Acad. Pliilad. 1861, 458. — Waysides and waste grounds, southern borders of Texas. 

 (Mex., S. Am.?) 



112. COREOPSIS, L. TiCKSEED. (Ko'^f?, a tick, and ot//i?, resem- 

 l)lance, from the form of t^ie akene.) — Herbs, mostly Eastern North American 

 and opposite-leaved, of various habit ; with pedunculate heads terminating the 

 branches ; the rays commonly showy, yellow, particolored, or sometimes rose- 



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