COREOP^SIS TRPPTERIS. 
THREE-LEAVED COREOPSIS. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. FRUSTRANEA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
6 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1737. 
No. 352. 
Coreopsis is compounded from the Greek coRis, 
a hug; and opsis, resemblance or appearance, in- 
dicative of the shape of the seeds. The trivial name, 
Tripteris, is deduced from the Greek trias, three; 
and PTE RON, a wing; and is appropriately used in 
allusion to the leaves of the plant, which occur in 
threes upon the stems. 
The flowers of Coreopsis tripteris are rather small 
in proportion to its height, but this is amply com- 
pensated by other circumstances. Very few her- 
baceous plants which grow to the same height, pos- 
sess so great a degree of neatness in all their parts. 
It has not obtrusive laterals, but is upright and 
straight, smooth and spruce, quite the trim gentle- 
man, with a touch of the old bachelor, scorning large 
ornaments. 
It demands no peculiar soil, situation, nor treat- 
ment. It admits of being divided at the root for in- 
crease, and this may be performed either in autumn 
or spring. If good flowering plants be desired, it 
should not be parted into very small portions, as it 
will not attain its full size in the season subsequently 
to such a division. 
Hort. Kew. 2, t. 5, 133. 
