RUDBECK'IA PINNA'TA. 
PINNATE RUDBECKI A. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. FBUSTRANEA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
4 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1803. 
No. 406. 
Rudbeck is a name familiar to most botanists, 
on account of the talent of both father and son, of 
this name ; both of whom preceded Linneus, in the 
botanical professorship of Upsal. Two volumes of 
the Campi Elysii, part of a magnificently designed 
work of the elder Rudbeck, may be seen in the 
Sherardian Library, Oxford. Pinnata, from the 
Latin pinna, a wing ; is applied to leaves which are 
composed of leaflets, or little wings, from a com- 
mon footstalk. No. 346 and 265, are pretty ex- 
amples of this sort of compound leaf. 
Similar species of Rudbeckia are sometimes mis- 
taken for the present one. The rough stiff hairs 
which cover its furrowed stems, will, however, deter- 
mine a doubt, respecting its identity. 
Its height demands that it be planted at the back 
of the flower border, or in the shrubbery. It will 
form an autumnal ornament, and assort well with 
the tall species of Phlox, the Asters, and late 
flowering annuals. 
It will flourish in any common garden soil, but 
the most so in a very rich loam. It may be divided 
in spring or autumn. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 5, 130. 
