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Composite Coreopsis. 



a deep crimson purple with here and there a dash of orange, 

 and in the ordinary form they are yellow with a purple-brown 

 blotch at the base. 



2. (7. DnimmondU. A much dwarfer spreading slightly 



hairy species with 

 orange-coloured flowers. 

 Leaves pinnate, with 

 ovate or lanceolate 

 lobes. 



-<7. coronata is another 

 annual species about 1 

 foot high, bearing orange 

 flowers spotted " with 

 brown. 



Perennial Species. 



3. C. auriculata (fig. 

 132). A tall slender 

 branching plant. Leaves 

 auricled at the base. 

 Flowers yellow, with a 

 band of purple - brown 

 encircling ; the disk ; 

 peduncles very long and 

 slender. Summer. 



4. C. tenuifdlia. 

 About 2 feet high. 

 Leaves pinnately divided 

 into numerous fine seg- 

 ments. Flowers yellow, 

 about 1J inch in dia- 

 meter, on short pe- 

 duncles. 



C. tripteris has tri- 

 foliolate leaves and yel- 

 low flowers ; C. lan- 

 ceolata entire leaves and 

 large yellow flowers ; and 

 C. verticillata, sessile 

 leaves divided to the base into six or seven linear segments, and 

 yellow flowers with a dark eye. C. aristosa is a handsome species 

 of recent introduction. It is nearly glabrous, about a yard high, 



Fig. 132. Coreopsis auriculata. 

 ( nat. size.) 



