NAT. ORDER. 



Compositce. 



CALLIOPSIS TINCTOKIA. DARK-FLOWERED CALLIOPSIS 

 Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order III. Polygamia, Frustranea, 



C^n. Char. Receptacle, pale, chaffy. Pajtpus, or Anthers, with two 

 horns. Calyx, erect, many-leaved. 



Spc. Char. Leaves, double compound. 



This is a hardy perennial plant, a native of North America. It 

 produces blossoms which are uncommonly beautiful, from July till 

 October. The stem rises to the height of five or six feet, in good soil, 

 and is therefore rather adapted to the shrubbery than the flower-gar- 

 den ; calij.v, many-parted and erect ; petals five to eight, from a bright 

 scarlet red to a pale yellow ; the flowers are placed upon the end of 

 long footstalks, and are large and numerous ; the stalk or stem is con- 

 siderably branched, each branch producing several flowers. 



This jilaiit, in its original or uncultivated state, exhibits a flower 

 of a beautiful bright yellow color, with a deep blackish-purple, or 

 blood-red eye ; but cultivation shows that these colors are liable to 

 vary, and has made us acquainted with a state of this plant, greatly 

 increased in beauty and richness, so far as concerns the flower. In 

 some specimens the whole of the ray is atro-sanguineous ; in others 

 there is a tawny, nan-ow margin, forming, as it were, a kind of limb 

 around it. Mixed with the common yellow root in large patches, they 

 add greatly to the elegant appearance and charms of a flower-garden. 

 The species that produce petals of a pure yellow color, are used by 

 the inhabitants to dye yellow. The stalks, limbs, and leaves are used 

 to dye a purplish-blue, and are much valued on that account. 



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