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GENUS V. 
CALLIOPSIS, Reich. THE CALLIOPSIS. 
Lin. Sffst. SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
inner scries large, and erect. Receptacle flat, covered with linear 
deciduous palea. Fruit compressed, naked, truncate. 
Generic Chiracteii. — Flowers of the ray neuter, ligulate, 3 to 
5-toothed ; those of the disk hermaphrodite, tubular. Involucral 
scales in two series ; outer scries short and squarrose ; those of the 
Description, &c. — The plants contained in this genus have been separated from those retained in the genus 
Coreopsis, on account of the palea of the receptacle being in the one case deciduous and in the other persistent ; 
but this difference is of course only discoverable by a botanist on dissecting the flower. The names of the two 
genera, though somewhat similar in sound, have, however, a very different origin : Coreopsis being derived from 
koris, a bug, and opsii, the look of, in allusion to the shape of the seeds ; and CaUiopsis being derived from 
kallutos, the Greek word for most beautiful, in allusion to the beauty of the flowers.- 
1.— CALLIOPSIS TINCTORIA, Dee. THE DYEING CALLIOPSIS. 
entire lobes ; upper leaves tripartitely multifid, with linear lobes. The 
fruit is minutely tuberculated, and wingless. 
ViRiETY.— C. t. 2 atrosanguinea, Mound's Bot. Gard. t. 538. 
The flowers are dark-red. 
SvuoNYMEs. — Coreopsis tinctoria, Nutt. ; Diplosastra tinctoria, 
Tausck ; CaUiopsis bicolor, Reich. 
Engkivings. — Bot. Mag. t. 2512; Bot. Reg. t. 846 ; and OMt fig. 
11, in Plate 31. 
Specific Character. — Radical leaves pinnate, or bipinnate, with 
Description, &c. — A very showy and well-known garden annual, with bright, orange-yellow flowers, more 
or less stained with blotches of dark-red ; growing two or three feet high, much branched, and spreading widely 
in proportion to its height. It is a native of North America, where it was discovered in 1821, by Professor 
Nuttall, covering whole tracts of land in the Arkansas territory, between the Missouri and the Mississippi. It 
was particularly abundant on the vast plains of somewhat elevated ground near the Red River ; and there the 
inhabitants used the dried flowers for dyeing red, on which account NuttaU gave the plant the specific name of 
tinctoria, signifying dyeing. CaUiopsis tinctoria was first supposed to be tender, but it is now found quite hardy, 
so much so, indeed, that it may be sown in autumn, to stand through the winter, without any care. Thus 
treated, it vyill produce very large and fine plants, which will flower early in May. The common treatment is, 
however, to sow it in the open border in February or March, and when the plants are two or three inches high, 
to thin them out, or transplant them, so as to leave the plants that are to flower at least six inches apart every 
way. Three plants will be quite sufficient for a tuft ; and as they have very slender stems, they should each be 
tied to two or three thin sticks painted green, which should be driven firmly into the ground ; or, what is perhaps 
better, each plant may be drawn through a dahlia hoop. 
2.— CALLIOPSIS ATKINSONIANA, Hook. MR. ATKINSON'S CALLIOPSIS. 
SvNOMVME. — Coreopsis Atkinsoniana, Dougl. I stem-leaves pinnate, with narrow subspatulate lobes. Fruit m-irgined 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg. t. 1376; and oar fig. 14, in Plate 31. with a short wing, quite smooth. 
Specific CuAKACTER.^Radical leaves bipinnate, with entire lobes ; | 
Description, &c. — Very distinct from C. tinctoria, in its flowers being of a pale yellow, less blotched, 
smaller, more cup-shaped, and more numerous. It is marked in the Bot. Reg. as a perennial, but we have always 
found it succeed quite well treated as an annual, and if sown at the same time as C. tinctoria, it generally comes 
into flower a few days before that species. It was found by Douglas in 1825, growing abundantly on an 
island in the river Columbia in California. 
