NAT. ORDER. 
Composite. 
CALLIOPSIS TINCTORIA. DARK-FLOWERED CALLIOPSIS 
Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order III. Polygamia, Frustranea, 
Gen. Char. Receptacle, pale, chaffy. Pappus, or Anthers, with two 
horns. Calyx, erect, many-leaved. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, double compound. 
This is a hardy perennial plant, a native of North America. It 
produces blossoms which are uncommonly beautiful, from July till 
October. The stem rises to the height of five or six feet, in good soil, 
and is therefore rather adapted to the shrubbery than the flower-gar- 
den ; calyx, many-parted and erect ; petals five to eight, from a bright 
scarlet red to a pale yellow ; the flowers are placed upon the end of 
long footstalks, and are large and numerous ; the stalk or stem is con- 
siderably branched, each branch producing several flowers. 
This plant, in its original or uncultivated state, exhibits a flower 
of a beautiful bright yellow color, with a deep blackish-purple, or 
blood-red eye ; but cultivation shows that these colors are liable to 
vary, and has made us acquainted with a state of this plant, greatly 
increased in beauty and richness, so far as concerns the flower. In 
some specimens the whole of the ray is atro-sanguineous ; in others 
there is a tawny, narrow margin, forming, as it were, a kind of limb 
around it. Mixed with the common yellow root in large patches, they 
add greatly to the elegant appearance and charms of a flower-garden. 
The species that produce petals of a pure yellow color, are used by 
the inhabitants to dye yellow. The stalks, limbs, and leaves are used 
to dye a purplish-blue, and are much valued on that account. 
Vol. m.— 173. 
