NAT. ORDER. — COMPOSIT.E. 
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Coreopsis lanceolata. Spear-leaved Coreopsis. — This species has 
several stems, decumbent at the bottom, and thence arising obliquely 
from a foot and a half to two feet in length ; at each joint a pair of 
oblong leaves appear, with other smaller ones ; the peduncles are 
round and smooth ; the florets in the ray eight or nine, broad, with 
four deep, large teeth at the end. It is a native of Carolina, and 
lasts two or three years. 
Propagation a7id Culture. The propagation of these plants is 
6asily elfected, either by slipping or dividing the roots in autumn, 
when the stalks decay, planting them out where they are to remain, 
keeping them clear from weeds, and cutting down the stalks annually 
in autumn, when they begin to decay. The fourth and fifth sorts 
may be rendered more forward by the use of a hot-bed. They are 
all well calculated for the more large borders and clumps, intro- 
ducing them in the vacant spaces between shrubs. They exhibit a 
great profusion of flowers until late in autumn. 
Medical Properties and Uses. These plants possess emetic, tonic, 
diuretic, and diaphoretic properties ; although seldom used for either 
of these purposes, and in order to produce the effect desired, large 
quantities of the root, or decoction of the seeds is necessary. As 
an emetic it operates very mildly. In extreme large doses it has 
been known to prove cathartic. 
