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and waste places. It abounds abundantly in various parts of Texas, 
from whence it was sent in the year 1835 to England, by the late 
Mr. Drummond, who was favorably struck with its beauty. The 
seeds which were planted in March, produced plants which displayed 
their large and bright orange-colored flower with a dark eye in the 
open air, in the following July. It is a hardy and most desirable 
annual. Its nearest affinity, as a species, is undoubtedly with the 
Coreopsis auriculata, with which some botanists appear, though 
doubtfully, to have united it. It differs from that plant in its being 
of much smaller size, thinner, and usually more divided leaves, with 
broader and blunter segments in its much larger flowers, and above 
all, the truly annual duration of the root. There are several varie- 
ties cultivated. 
Coreopsis verticillata. Whole-leaved Coreopsis. This has a 
perennial root, with many tall, stiff, angular stems, upward of three 
feet high ; the leaves are opposite, often in whorles ; leaflets very 
narrow and entire; the branches opposite; the peduncles long, 
slender, and one-flowered ; the ray yellow ; and the disk dark purple. 
It continues long in flower in the latter end of the summer. This 
is a native of North America. 
Coreopsis trij)teris. Three-leaved Coreopsis. This species has 
likewise a perennial root ; the stems, strong, round, smooth, and six 
or seven feet high ; the flowers appear in bunches at the top of the 
stem, on long peduncles ; the ray of the corolla, is of a pale yellow ; 
the disk a dark purple. Native of the United States. 
Coreopsis altern.ifolia. Alternate-leaved Coreopsis. This has a 
woody perennial root ; the stems, several in number, annual, erect, 
angular, filled with white pith, winged, from five to ten feet high, 
simple, having only very short subdivisions at the top into roundish 
villose peduncles ; the leaves are ragged on both sides, of a dirty 
green color ; the lower ones three or four together, or two opposite, 
the rest alternate, decurrent ; the flowers are large and of a yellow- 
ish color, coming out late. This is a native of Virginia. 
