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COREOPSIS ROSEA. 



ROSE-COLOURED COREOPSIS. 



Syngenesiafrustanea, Linn. Corymbiferae, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix double, both many-leaved (8 to 12) interior equal, sub-coriaceous, and coloured. Re- 

 ceptacle palleaceous, scales flat. Seed compressed, emarginate, bidentated, dentures 

 rarely awned. Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Small and very smooth ; stem mostly simple ; leaves linear, entire, axils leafy ; flow- 

 ers few, long-pedunculate, dichotomal and terminal ; rays red, unequally 3-toothed. 

 Nutt. 



Root perennial. Stem very smooth, round, yellowish, simple and 

 branched. Leaves opposite, connate, ciliated at their point of union, 

 about two or three inches long and an eighth of an inch broad, chan- 

 nelled, often inclining to be pinnatifid; the pinnseform segments ar- 

 cuate. Axils leafy, and sometimes giving origin to small, imperfect 

 branches. Flowers from three to six and eight, most commonly 



