NAT. ORDER 

 Composit(s. 



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COREOPSIS DIVERSIFOLIA. TICK-SEEDED SUN-FLOWER. 



Class XTX. Syngenesia. Order- III. Frustrania. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, eight leaved, coarse and placed in a circle. 

 Corolla, compound, rayed. Females, eight in the ray. Stamens, 

 five. 



Spe. Cliar. Germ, compressed. Style, filiform, length of the 

 stamens. Stigma, bifid, acute, slender. Receptacle, chad'y. 



The root of this plant is annual ; the stem, a foot, or a foot and a 

 half high, branched, varying exceedingly in hairiness, sometimes 

 thickly clothed with rather long, spreading hairs, at other times 

 quite glabrous ; leaves generally glabrous, petiolated, extremely 

 variable, sometimes obovate-spathulate, and quite undivided, 

 sometimes ternate, with the two lateral segments or leaflets smaller, 

 at other times pinnatifid, and not rarely even bipinnate ; the leaflets 

 obovate or oval, and very obtuse, those of the lower-most leaves 

 almost orbicular ; peduncles double, small, terminal and axillary, 

 also long, slender, and glabrous ; involucre double, monophyllous and 

 about eiglit partite ; the outer lax with linear, green segments ; the 

 inner with broadly-elliptic, brown, glossy, membranaceous ones ; 

 florets of the ray eight, very large, obovate, spreading, brigiit orange, 

 with a dark brown spot at the very base, unequal teeth, the two 

 middle ones the largest ; germ,en ovate, compressed, slightly curved ; 

 receptacle chaffy ; the scales long, lanceolate-subulate, dark purple 

 brown, and pale below. 



Tliis elegant plant is a native of the United States ; it is cultiva- 

 ted by many gardeners as an ornament, but is mostly found growing 

 in a wild or uncultivated state. It seeks mostly old gardens, hedges 



Vol. iv.-51. 



