NAT. ORDER. 
Compositce. 
COREOPSIS DIVERSIFOLIA. TICK-SEEDED SUN-FLOWER. 
Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order III. Frustrania. 
Gm. Char. Calyx^ eight leaved, coarse and placed in a circle. 
Corolla, compound, rayed. Females, eight in the ray. Stamens, 
five. 
Spe. Char. Germ, compressed. Style, filiform, length of the 
stamens. Stigma, bifid, acute, slender. Receptacle, chaffy. 
The root of this plant is annual ; the stem, a foot, or a foot and a 
half high, branched, varying exceedingly in hairiness, sometimes 
thickly clothed with rather long, spreading hairs, at other times 
quite glabrous ; leaves generally glabrous, petiolated, extremely 
variable, sometimes obovate-spathulate, and quite undivided, 
sometimes ternate, with the two lateral segments or leaflets smaller, 
at other times pinnatifid, and not rarely even bipinnate ; the leafiets 
obovate or oval, and very obtuse, those of the lower-most leaves 
almost orbicular ; peduncles double, small, terminal and axillary, 
also long, slender, and glabrous ; involucre double, monophyllous and 
about eight partite ; the outer lax with linear, green segments ; the 
inner with broadly-elliptic, brown, glossy, membranaceous ones ; 
Jlorets of the ray eight, very large, obovate, spreading, bright orange, 
with a dark brown spot at the very base, unequal teeth, the two 
middle ones the largest ; germen ovate, compressed, slightly curved ; 
receptacle chaffy ; the scales long, lanceolate-subulate, dark purple 
brown, and pale below. 
This elegant plant is a native of the United States ; it is cultiva- 
ted by many gardeners as an ornament, but is mostly found growing 
in a wild or uncultivated state. It seeks mostly old gardens, hedges 
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