COREOP SIS ATKINSON I A'N A. 
atkinson’s coreopsis. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGBNESIA. POLYGAMJA FBUSTRANEA 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Columbia. 
3 feet. 
August. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 389. 
The word Coreopsis is derived from the two Greek 
words, coris, a bug ; and opsis, appearance, or re- 
semblance; in allusion to the shape of the seeds of 
some of its species. The same idea originated the 
term tick-seed sun-flower, which has sometimes been 
used as an English name for this genus. Atkinso- 
niana, is a name given to this species by Douglass, 
as a mark of respect to W. Atkinson, Esq. of Grove 
End, whose talents are well known in the neigh- 
bourhood of the metropolis, in connexion with im- 
provements in heating and ventilating hot-houses. 
In a former part of our work we had occasion to 
admire and recommend the Coreopsis tinctoria, a 
beautiful plant, of annual growth only. Its golden 
petals and rich dark eye soon rivetted, we may say 
public attention, and every body enquired for, and 
obtained it. From the same inexhaustible source. 
North America, we now present its counterpart, but 
under a perennial character. Surely,without betray- 
ing undue enthusiasm, the botanist may well ex- 
claim, wherefore such profuse diversity in nature P 
or why such distinction in the duration of plant or of 
flower? The very mention of floral duration opens 
