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several seeds ; there is a transverse furrow in the middle of 

 the partition. Native place unknown. 



11. Cordia Micranthus. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, quite 

 entire, membranaccous; veined ; racemes compound, lax. 

 Native of Jamaica, and other West India islands. 



12. Cordia Elliptica. Leaves elliptic, acuminate, entire, 

 coriaceous ; branches compound, diffused ; drupes acumi- 

 nate. Native of Jamaica. 



Coreopsis ; a. genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia Frustranea. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: com- 

 mon either simple, subimbricate, or doubled ; the exterior 

 usually with eight leaflets, which are coarse, and placed in a 

 circle ; the interior with as many large ones, membranaceous 

 and coloured. Corolla : compound rayed ; corollets herma- 

 phrodite, numerous in the disk ; females eight in the ray ; 

 proper of the hermaphrodite tubular, five-toothed ; female 

 ligulate, four-toothed, spreading, large. Stamina: in the 

 hermaphrodites, filamenta five, capillary, very short ; antherae 

 cylindric, tubular. Pistil: in the hermaphrodites, germen 

 compressed ; style filiform, length of the stamiaa ; stigma 

 bifid, acute, slender : in the females, germen like the her- 

 maphrodites ; style and stigma none. Pericarp : none ; 

 caiix scarcely altered. Seed : in the hermaphrodite, solitary, 

 orbiculate, convex on one side, concave on the other with a 

 transverse protuberance at top and bottom, surrounded by a 

 membranaceous edge, with a two-horned tip ; in the fe- 

 males, none. Receptacle: chaffy. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix : erect, many-leaved, surrounded at the base with 

 spreading rays. Down: two-horned. Receptacle: chaffy. 

 The species are, 



1. Coreopsis Yertidllata ; Whorl-leaved Coreopsis, or Tick- 

 seed Sun-flower. Leaves decompound-linear. Root peren- 

 nial ; stems many, stiff, angular, upwards of three feet high ; 

 ray yellow ; disk dark purple. Being a showy plant, grow- 

 ing very tall, and continuing long in flower, it is a great 

 ornament to the shrubbery j the yellow florets, which appear 

 from July till September, are used in North America to dye 

 cloth red. Native of North America. This species, and 

 also the second, fifth, ninth, twelfth, and thirteenth to the 

 sixteenth, are hardy plants, and may be plentifully propa- 

 gated by parting the roots, the best time for which is in 

 autumn, when the stalks begin to decay. The first species 

 requires a light loamy earth, and sunny exposure. 



2. Coreopsis Coronatu. Leaves pinnate, serrate, marked 

 with lines, smooth. Annual. Native of Virginia. 



3. Coreopsis Leucantha. Leaves pinnate, serrate ; ray of 

 the flowers of a different colour from the disk. Stem three 

 or four feet high, four-cornered, smoothish, the opposite 

 sides channelled ; flowers terminating, alternate, two or three 

 on longish peduncles; ray of the corolla usually with five 

 white florets, which are ovate, three-toothed at the end, the 

 middle one longest, three-nerved underneath. Annual : and 

 a native of America. 



4. Coreopsis Chrysantha. Leaves ternate, ovate-oblong, 

 serrate ; ray of the flowers concolor. Stem quadrangular, 

 simple, jointed ; leaves on the branch opposite, smooth ; on 

 the flowering branches alternate, smaller ; flowers termi- 

 nating, on long peduncles, solitary, with six three-toothed 

 florets in the ray, which are nevertheless often wanting. 

 Root and stem sweet-scented. Native of South America. 



5. Coreopsis Tripteris ; Three-leaved Coreopsis. Leaves 

 subternate, quite entire; root perennial ; stems strong, round, 

 smooth, six or seven feet high ; flowers in bunches, on the 

 top of the stem, in long peduncles ; ray of the corolla pale 

 yellow ; disk dark purple. Native of North America. It 

 requires a light loamy earth, and sunny exposure. 



6. Coreopsis Alba ; Climbing Coreopsis. Leaves subternate. 

 cuneate, serrate. This is a climbing plant; the florets of the 

 margin of which are all neuter, and rise immediately from 

 the bottom of the inward scales ; the seeds are bidented. Na- 

 tive of the hills of Jamaica, and of the island of Santa Cruz. 



7- Coreopsis Reptans; Trailing Coreopsis. Leaves serrate, 

 ovate, upper ones ternate ; stem creeping. Root small, 

 fibrous, annual with us ; stem climbing, weak, five feet high, 

 branching, leafy, striated, smooth, square at the base, roundish 

 above ; florets all gold-coloured, those of the ray with about 

 four teeth and veined, those of the disk five-cleft. Native of 

 the woody inland parts of Jamaica. 



8. Coreopsis Baccata ; Berried Coreopsis. Leaves serrate, 

 ovate; seeds berry-form. Stem eight feet in height, herba- 

 ceous, erect ; leaves opposite, petioled, three-nerved ; flowers 

 terminal, often three, peduncled, very small ; ray of the co- 

 rolla neuter, yellow, three-toothed, longer than the disk ; 

 fruit the exact form of a blackberry. Native of Surinam. 



9. Coreopsis Auriculata ; Ear-leaved Coreopsis. Leaves 

 quite entire, ovate, the lower ones ternate. Stem from nine 

 inches to a foot in height, upright, covered with a soft 

 down ; flowers golden-coloured, with about eight florets in 

 the ray. Native of Virginia. 



10. Coreopsis Lanceolata; Spear-leaved Coreopsis. Leaves 

 lanceolate, quite entire, ciliate. Stems several, decumbent 

 at bottom, and thence rising obliquely a foot and a half or two 

 feet in length; florets in the ray eight or nine, broad, with 

 four deep large teeth at the end ; calix double, each consist- 

 ing of eight or nine leaflets, the outer thick and spreading, 

 the inner larger, upright, and pressed close to tlie flower, 

 transparent, and of a pale ochre-colour. The seeds, which 

 resemble a small hemispheric beetle or bug, must be sown 

 upon a gentle hot-bed in the spring, and when the plants are 

 fit to remove, they should be set each in a separate small 

 pot, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed to bring them forw ard. 

 They must be gradually inured to the open air in June, and 

 some of them may be afterwards taken out of the pots, and 

 planted in a warm border, where, if the season be good, they 

 will flower in the middle of July, and ripen their seeds in the 

 beginning of September. 



11. Coreopsis Bidens. Leaves lanceolate, serrate, opposite, 

 stem-clasping. A mere variety of Bidens Cernua, to which 

 the reader is referred. 



12. Coreopsis Alternifolia ; Alternate-leaved Coreopsis. 

 Leaves lanceolate, serrate, alternate, petiolate, decurrent. 

 Root woody, perennial; stems several, annual, erect, angular, 

 filled with white pith, winged, from five to ten feet high, 

 simple, having only very short subdivisions at the top, into 

 roundish villose peduncles ; florets in the ray from four to 

 eight, yellow ; border slightly toothed, very concave, with 

 the sides rolled in; the flowers have but little scent, and 

 coming forth late in October or November, seldom perfect 

 their seeds in England. Native of Virginia, and Canada. It 

 will thrive in almost every soil and situation. 



13. Coreopsis Aurea ; Hemp-leaverl Coreopsis. Leaves ser- 

 rate; root-leaves three-parted; stem-leaves tririd ami en- 

 tire, lanceolate, linear. Perennial ; flowering in August and 

 September. Native of North America. 



14. Coreopsis Crassifolia ; Thick-leaved Coreopsis. L< 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, quite entire, pubescent. Perennial ; 

 flowering from August till October. Native of Carolina. 



15. Coreopsis Angustifolia ; Narrow-leaved Coreopsis. 

 Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, quite entire, even ; petals 

 of the ray oblong, trifid, the middle segment largest. A 

 perennial plant; flowering in June. Native of Carolina and 

 Florida. 



