supplementary to Fjucyc. of Plants and Hart. Brit. 183 



had been kept in a green-house for some years, and flowered 

 when it was 4 ft. high. {Bot. Reg., t. 1839.) 

 CompositcE, suborder Helianthcce. 



2415, COREO'PSIS [mag. t. 3474 



•22OOI0 diversifblia Hoolc. various-leaved O or 2 jl Br O Br Texas 1825 S co Bot. 

 Synonyme : C. auriculata var. diveisifWia Elliott, Carol, vol. ii. p. 437. 



" Sent from Texas by the late Mr. Drummond, who was 

 much struck with its beauty, and who gathered it not only upon 

 the coast of Brazosia, but in the interior of the country round 

 San Fehpe. It promises to be a hardy and most desirable an- 

 nual. Its nearest affinity, as a species, is, undoubtedly, with C. 

 auriculata, with which Mr. Elliott appears, though doubtfully, 

 to have united it. It differs from that plant in its much smaller 

 size; thinner and usually more divided leaves, with broader and 

 blunter segments ; in its much larger flowers ; and, above all, in 

 the truly annual duration of the root." [Bot. Mag., t. S^?^.) 



2418. CALLIO'PSIS Echb. 

 f22016. tinctftria Nut. [gard. t. 538 



var. 2 *atrosanguinea Maund O or 3 jl-o Dk Bd N. America 1823 s co Maund's bot. 



This is a very distinct variety, and much better entitled to be 

 considered a species than many varieties that are so designated. 

 When we consider how different this plant is from C. tinctoria, as 

 it was when introduced in 1823, how different the dark-flowered 

 variety of the common nasturtium is from the species; and also 

 that white foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea var. alba) and white 

 wood hyacinths (^illa non scripta var. alba) are frequent in a 

 wild state, we cannot help thinking that nine tenths of what 

 are now recorded as species by botanists are, probably, nothing 

 more than varieties. We shall be told, perhaps, that there is a 

 wide difference between plants in a wild state, and plants in 

 culture, and also between the nature of herbaceous plants, and 

 that of ligneous plants ; but we think we are entitled to deny 

 this : the nature of all plants is essentially the same, and the 

 question between an annual, a perennial, or a tree that does not 

 flower, perhaps, till it has attained the age of a quarter of a cen- 

 tury, as to sporting into varieties, is merely one of time. As to 

 culture, the difference, at first sight, appears greater ; and we 

 admit it to be great in plants of a very limited range of latitude 

 and altitude : but take a plant of a very extensive range, whether 

 an herb or a tree, and we shall find it in something analogous to a 

 state of culture in those localities where there is a maximum of 

 favourable circumstances. We should say, for example, that 

 the Quercus Rbhuv was nearly equivalent to being in a state of 

 culture in Sussex, and the Robinm Pseiad-^cacia in Limestone 

 Valley in Virginia; and both these species to be in a comparatively 

 uncultivated state, the one on the mountains in the Highlands 

 of Scotland, and the other in Pennsylvania in lat. 40° 20'. 

 Accordingly, we find a very great difference, both in the appear- 



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