aurea. 
alternifolia. 
POLYGAMIA, FRUSTRANEA. 
Spanish Needles. 
From ten to eighteen inches high. The seeds are long, 
prickly, and adhere to the cloths of persons who pass through 
fields or woods where the plant grows. The rays of the flow- 
ers are very small, and yellow. In neglected fields and woods, 
abundant. Perennial. July, October. : 
328. COREOPSIS. Gen. pl. 1325. ( Corymbifere.) 
Calix double, both many-leaved, (8 to 12,) 
interior equal, subcoriaceous and coloured. 
Receptacle paleaceous, scales flat. Seed 
compressed, emarginate, bidentate, den- 
tures rarely awned.—Wutt. . 
1. C. leaves serrated, those of the root S-parted, 
of the stem trifid or entire, lanceolate-linear. 
— Willd. 
C. aurea, Muhl. 
Golden Thickseed Sun-flower. 
This elegant plant I have heretofore only found in Jersey. 
Flowers large, golden-yellow, showy. On the margins of 
Timber-creek, and rivulets near Woodbury, Jersey. Bien- 
nial. August. 
329. ACTINOMERIS. Nutt. Gen. Am. pl. vol. 2. p. 181. 
( Corymbifere.) 
Calhix simple, many-leaved, foliaceous, sub- 
equal. Rays remote, elongated, (4 to 8.) 
fieceptacle smali and paleaceous, the leaf- 
lets embracing the margin of the seed. 
Seed compressed and marginated, with the 
summit persistently 2-awned.—WVutt. 
1. A. leaves broad-lanceolate, serrated; corymb 
paniculated; calix spreading, loose; disk sub- 
globose, in fruit squarrose.—WVutt. 
Actinomeris squarrosa, Nutt. 


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