HELIOPSIS I./EVIS. FALSE SUN-FLOWER. I7I 



guish one kind from another, and the same will be found true of 

 these little llowers in composite plants. In HcUopsis Icrvis the 

 divisions of the corolla are long and channelled in the centre ; 

 but they recurve nearly their whole length, and this gives the 

 flower the appearance of having very short and notched lobes 

 (Fig. 3). The united column of anthers is very long and slender, 

 soon discharges its pollen, and fades away (see Fig. 2) ; when 

 the deeply divided lobes of the pistil also rapidly recurve in like- 

 manner with the lobes of the corolla, as seen in Fig. 3. These 

 little flowers or florets in their several conditions make very 

 beautiful objects in the arrangements of their lines and propor- 

 tions, as may be noted in our Figs. 2 and 3, and it is doubtful 

 whether any of the more showy representatives of the floral 

 kingdom be better worth an artistic study. As a further point of 

 botanical interest it will be noted that there is not any of the 

 brisdy or scaly appendage to the akene usually known as a pap- 

 pus. The thickened bases of Figs, i and 2 are the akenes, and 

 the pappus should arise from what seems to be the joint in the 

 representation, and which is wholly wanting here. This condi- 

 tion occurs at times in other compositce ; but taken together 

 with other points, it aids in forming the generic character. 



It is a plant well adapted to cultivation, and gives a gay attrac- 

 tion to the flower garden in August and September, The side 

 flowers are on rather longer peduncles than the central ones, 

 and this brings tlie flowers all to nearly one level, or, as the bot- 

 anist would say, it is corymbosely-paniculate. In garden culture 

 it grows from two to three, or sometimes nearly four feet high. 

 It is a perennial plant, and readily increased either by seeds or 

 dividing the root-stocks. Seed sown in the fall will bloom the 

 next year. It seems to have been one of the earliest of our wild 

 flowers to be introduced to English gardens and English botan- 

 ists, for it is recorded as having been grown in the collection of 

 the Duchess of Beaufort in 1714. It is referred to by the Eng- 

 lish botanist Ray, who perhaps received it from the Reverend 

 John Banister, who sent to him a catalogue in 1680, with seeds 



