COREOPSIS VERTICILLATA. 



WHORLED-LEAVED COREOPSIS. 



Syngcnesia Frustranex, Linn. Corymbiferx, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix double, both many-leaved, (8 — 12,) interior equal, sub-coriaceous and colour- 

 ed. Receptacle paleaceous, scales flat. Seed compressed, emarginate, biden- 

 tate ; dentures rarely awned. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves verticillated, pinnated by three's or five's ; pinnse linear, 3-parted, and indi- 

 vided ; disk discoloured. Willd. 



Root perennial, fibrous. Plant from two to three feet high, some- 

 times taller in luxuriant soils. Stem erect, leaves pinnated, in whorls 

 of three, five, and often opposite in pairs, particularly towards 

 the summit ; the segments linear, from one and a half to two inches 

 long. Flowers handsome, rays yellow, with dark sienna disk. Grows 

 on high hills and mountainous lands in (by soil, from Maryland to 

 Carolina, and probably will be found further south. It delights in the 

 exposed borders of dry hilly woods; flowering from July till October. 



