CALLIOFSIS DRUMMON'DII. 
DRUMMONDS CALLIOFSIS. 
Order. 
FRUSTRANEA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITiE. 
Native of 
Heio^hl. 
Flowers in 1 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
2 feet. 
September. | 
Annual. 
in 1835. 
No. 589. 
The word Calliopsis is compounded from the 
Greek, as noticed under No. 538. It implies that 
the flower is beautiful to the sight ; or, according 
to some authorities, has a beautiful eye. 
The present handsome showy annual is very 
nearly allied to our Coreopsis tinctoria. No. 13; 
which is now included in this new genus, and is 
known as the Calliopsis tinctoria; sometimes called 
Calliopsis bicolor. AVe regret these changes and 
re-christenings, but must acknowledge them inevi- 
table ; indeed they arise in some degree out of the 
exuberance of nature — the superabundant riches of 
the vegetable kingdom. No sooner are our systems 
of classification applied to a little group of exotic 
plants, and a genus established, than another un- 
expected link of the vegetable chain of creation is 
discovered, which claims one part of such genus as 
its intimate congeners, but will rank with the others 
as half brother only. A division is the result. 
The foliage of the Calliopsis Drummondii pro- 
minently distinguishes it from other species. In 
cultivation it requires but the common care of a 
hardy annual. 
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Class. 
SYNGENESIA. 
