miBILI^ SILT* 

 COREOPSIS TINCTORIA. 



DYEING COREOPSIS. ARKANSA COREOPSIS. 



Syngencsia Frustranesc, Linn. Corymbiferie, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 Receptacle paleaceous, scales flat. Seed compressed, emarginate, bidentate, 

 dentures rarely awned. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Radical leaves pinnate-form ; leaflets sub-oval, entire, smooth, the upper one imper- 

 fectly pinnate with linear segments ; flowers in pairs or three's ; exterior calices 

 very short, rays bi-coloured; seeds naked, emarginate. Nuttall. 



•• Annual and biennial, stem erect, smooth, and much branched, ex- 

 tremely variable in magnitude, being from one to five feet high. The 

 leaves, in common with the genus, are somewhat thick and succulent 

 the primary ones simple, radical pseudo-bipinnate, the segments also 

 occasionally pinnate, oblong-oval, commonly smooth, and entire, the 



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