Rudbeckia laciniata. 57 



R. laciniata is a hardy perennial, becoming greatly improved by 

 cultivation. It is hence a very proper native to introduce into the 

 borders of our gardens. A single root transplanted in the spring or 

 early summer, will by the succeeding year be so much multiplied, as 

 to form a large and showy cluster. Cultivation, besides rendering 

 the flowers larger and more numerous, gives a tendency to ramifica- 

 tion of the stems from the root, thus adding to the strength and 

 beauty of the plant as a border ornament of gardens. In Pennsyl- 

 vania, this is the only very common species of Rudbeckia, and here 

 it is every where to be met with in the situations already specified 

 as its habitat. In the vicinity of Philadelphia it is most common on 

 the borders of the Schuylkill and Delaware, along the course of 

 these rivers on either side, growing in company with different spe- 

 cies of Helianthus, and other late-flowering perennials. 



Fig. 1. The upper portion of a flowering specimen of the plant, 

 shewing the trilobed and ovate leaves. 



2. A radicle pinnate leaf. 



3. A neutral floret. 



4. A perfect floret of the disk. 



(All the size of nature.) 

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