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THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN 
GENUS XIV. 
COREOPSIS, Gart. THE COREOPSIS. 
Lin. Si/st. SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Genebic Characieh. — luTolucre many-leaved ; scales of the outer i of the ray, barren. Pappus with two or three bristles. Seeds flat, 
series, leaf-like ; inner ones membranaceous. Receptacle flat, or slightly winged, 
slightly raised. Florets of the disk, hermaphrodite and fertile ; those | 
Description, &c. — The name of Coreopsis is taken from two Greek words signifying Like a bug, in allusion 
to the shape of the seeds, which are flat, and resemble that disgusting insect. The species are American perennial 
plants, with erect stems, generally opposite leaves, and yellow flowers. 
1.— COREOPSIS GRANDIFLORA, Hogg. THE LARGE-FLOWERED COREOPSIS. 
ENoaAViNGs. — Swt. Bril. Flow. Card. t. 175; and our Jig. 2, in opjjosite, connate, nearly sessile, fringed with hair at the base. Pe- 
Plate 48. dunclcs elongated, one-flowered. Florets of the ray five-toothed. 
Specific Character. — Stem erect, branched, fuirowed. Leaves 
Description, &c. — An elegant plant, three or four feet high, with deeply cut leaves, the leaflets of which 
are fle.shy and linear, elongated and spreading. The flowers are of a brilliant yellow, and the florets of the ray 
are so deeply toothed, as to give them a fringe-like appearance. The species is a native of North America, 
wheno3 it was introduced in 1826. It is quite hardy, and will grow in any common garden soil ; flowering in 
autumn. It is propagated by seeds, cuttings, or dividing the root, and it takes readily in all these ways. 
2.— COREOPSIS LANCEOLATA, Willd. THE LANCEOLATE-LEAVED COREOPSIS, 
Engravings. — Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 10 ; and our Jig- 3 in 
Plate 48. 
Specific Character. — Leaves lanceolate, entire, ciliated, attenuated 
into a petiole at the base. Peduncles elongated, naked. Florets of 
the (jy, four-toothed. Seeds slightly winged, with rough edges. Pappus 
of two short fringed teeth. 
Dkscription, &c. — This species is rather more tender than the other kinds of Coreopsis, and it is easily 
killed by moisture as well as frost. It is a native of North America, where Pursh found it growing in hilly 
situations in Carolina and Virginia. It requires aliglit, rich, dry soil, and an open, airy situation exposed to the 
sun. It grows about two feet high, with numerous branching stems, several rising from the same root, and 
lanceolate leaves. It flowers from August till October, but it seldom ripens its seeds in this country; and 
consequently, it is generally propagated by division of the root. It may also be increased by cuttings, which 
should be taken off before midsummer, and planted in a pot which should be plunged in a hotbed, and covered 
with a hand-glass to make them strike. 
3.— COREOPSIS SENIFOLIA, Mich. THE SIX-LEAVED COREOPSIS. 
Engravings. — Hot. Mag. t. 3484 ; and out fig. i in Plate 48. , segments lanceolate, entire. Florets of the ray not toothed. Pap- 
SpEciFic Character. — Leaves opposite, sessile, deeply tripartite j | pus nearly obsolete. 
Description, &c. — This species closely resembles Chrysostemma (see vol. i. p. 88) to which at first siglit it 
appears much more nearly allied than to Coreopsis. It is a native of Carolina and Georgia, whence it was 
introduced in I8I2. It has small flowers, which are produced in great abundance ; and it is easily distinguished 
by its leaves, which being opposite, and each deeply cut into three lanceolate segments, appear to be in wliorls of 
six each. Though a native of the warmest part of Nortii America, this species is quite hardy in British gardens. 
It is propagated either by seeds or dividing the root. 
