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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
GENUS VIII. 
T 1 C K - S E E D. 
COREOPSIS. 
Character of the Gen-:?, 
1 he Cup has two rows ol diftant and diflimllar Scales 
fifing from a flefhy Bafe. 
Plate 34, Fig. o. ah 
I. CLUSTER-LEAVED TICK-SEED, 
Plate 34. Fig. I. 
Charafler of the Species. Coreopfis Vciticillata. 
-The Leaves are divided into oblong narrow Segments, 
and furround the Stalk. 
Fig. ah. 
This is a Perennial ; native of Virginia ; a Plant of four feet high, 
and Flowers in Auguft : the Leaves are placed in pairs ; but their 
Divifions feem to furround the Stalk in Circles, as in the Verticillate 
Plants. The Flowers are of a delicate yellow, with a purple Difk ; 
very numerous, and very beautiful. 
2. TERNATE-LEAVED tick -SEED. 
Plate 34. Fig. £. 
Character of the Species. Coreopfis Ti iptcris. 
The lower Leaves are cut to the Bafe into three difiindt 
and entire divifions. 
Fig. 2. a. 
This is a Perennial ; a tall, robufl; Plant of fix feet high, covered 
with golden f lowers from July to October : It is a native of Nortli- 
America, and lives with us freely in the open Air. The Leaves are 
of a deep green, and the Stalk is extremely branched toward the Top. 
Though the lower Leaves are compofed of three diftind Parts, the 
upper ones are entire. 
