COREOPSIS TENUIFO'LIA. 



. SLENDER-LEAVED COREOPSIS. 

 Class. Order. 



SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA FRUSTBANBA. 



Natural Order. 



CORYMBIFBRJE. 



No. 62. 



Coreopsis, from the Greek CORIS, a bug; and 

 OPS is, appearance ; in allusion to the apparent 

 similarity of the seed and the insect. From this 

 circumstance it is, in part, that these plants are 

 sometimes called tick-seed sunflower. Tenuifolia, 

 from the Latin tenuis, slender ; and folium, a leaf. 



There were formerly between thirty and forty 

 distinct species of Coreopsis described, and nearly 

 the whole of them, like tenuifolia, hardy and her- 

 baceous. The genus has, however, been somewhat 

 curtailed, from the generic characters of some of its 

 former species having been found such, as of neces- 

 sity, required their removal to other families. They 

 are generally showy plants ; and more perfect in- 

 stances of their attraction need not be given, than 

 in the two species already published in this work, 

 No. 13, and No. 46. The former of these, the 

 Coreopsis tinctoria, has spread over Great Britain 

 more rapidly than any plant we have ever known. 

 In the three years, since the period of its introduc- 

 tion, its beauty has secured it a passport to almost 

 every respectable garden in the kingdom ; where it 

 will continue to be cultivated as one of the most 



