328 Herbaceous [Plants* 



or naturalized in gravelly soil. C. tinctoria is an annual a 

 couple of feet high, branched and spreading, leaves bipinnat- 

 ifid ; heads numerous, ray-florets deep crimson on the lower 

 half, the rest yellow. C. Drummondii, resembling the last, 

 ray -florets yellow with a dark spot at the base. C. lanceolata 

 is a perennial ; leaves lanceolate, flowers pure yellow ; very 

 desirable. Flowers all summer. 



Sunflower, Helianthus. All the species are very large 

 and coarse but showy plants. The common annual species 

 hardly deserves culture except for economic use. The most 

 desirable are H. decapetalus, a tall plant common on sunny 

 shores of rivers ; heads three inches across, showy, bright 

 yellow. H. angustifolius, leaves linear, a medium-sized or 

 small species about three or four feet high ; ray -florets bright 

 yellow, disk purple. H. Maximilianus, leaves long, linear- 

 lanceolate ; stems six feet, more or less ; flower-heads very 

 numerous golden, yellow. A most desirable species. All 

 are perennial. On the margins of water ; in borders or 

 shrubberies. 



Oxeye, Heliopsis Icevis. A kind of sunflower on a 

 smaller scale, leaves ovate ; flower-heads terminal on numer- 

 ous lateral branches ; H. Pitcher ianus, a recently introduced 

 kind, is of a very spreading and branching habit, about 

 three feet high, with numerous heads of golden-yellow flow- 

 ers late in summer. A beautiful and very floriferous kind. 

 Fine in borders ; ordinary soil. 



Cone-flower, Rudbeckia. A genus of very attractive 

 perennial plants flowering all summer. It. speciosa has 

 coarsely toothed, lanceolate leaves and terminal heads of 

 yellow flowers ; disk conical ; habit branching, height less 



