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THE THISTLE FAMILY. 



RUNNING OR LOBED TICKSEED. 



FAMILY 



Thistle. 



COLOUR 



Deep orange. 



Coreopsis a uruulaia . 



ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Scentless. Florida and Louisiana to Alay-August. 



Virginia and Kentucky. 



Flozver-heads : terminal ; solitary and having both radiate and tubular flowers 

 enclosed in an involucre of two sorts of green bracts. Rays : six to ten, spread- 

 ing ; broad and from three to five-toothed at the apex. £>ts^ flowers : numerous 

 on°a rounded receptacle. Achenes : oval; winged. Basal leaves : ovate ; blunt at 

 the apex and tapering at the base into margined pubescent petioles, entire, or with 

 two small lobes at the base; thin; the younger ones covered with a soft white 

 tomentum. Stem leaves: linear, to spatulate, with petioles or sessile. Stems: 

 five to fifteen inches high ; erect, or decumbent; simple, or branched; pubescent, 

 becoming smooth. 



Slender and graceful and beautiful is this 

 little one of the coreopses, which, through its 

 purely southern range, we find in rich woods. 

 It has a high-bred, refined expression, and 

 the foliage, especially of the stolons by which 

 it spreads itself, is soft and exquisitely col- 

 oured. 



When the coreopsis blows we know well 

 that we are treading through the season of 

 golden-rayed flowers. They fauly shower 

 gold, with the sunflowers, golden asters, lit- 

 tle tickseeds and innumerable others of their 

 clan. 



At the time we ascended Caesar's Head 

 they were not yet in 

 flower, but all the way ^ "-'' ^- 

 up to that elevated place 

 the plants were to be seen - •' 

 in great abundance, pull- 'r)^< 

 ing themselves together, 

 so to speak, for their su- 

 preme energy of bloom, 

 which must later have 

 spread gold as in sheets 

 along the way, and tinted 

 the waves of the land- 

 scape as seen from a 

 spot in the shade of Lit- 

 tle Csesar. Many indeed of this genus do we encounter. 



Cesar's Head. 



