RUDBECK'IA COLUMNA'RIS. 
var. pulchen-ima. 
PAINTED-RAYED RUDBECKIA. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. FRUSTRANEA. 
Natural Order. 
composite;. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Texas. 
2| feet. 
August. 
Perennial. 
in 1835. 
No. 657. 
Under No. 336, we published the usual plain yel- 
low variety of Rudbeckia columnaris, which was 
introduced to Great Britain from North America, 
in 1811. The present beautiful and improved co- 
louring of this flower is too attractive to admit of 
neglect. The plants possessing it were raised from 
seeds, under the direction of Mr. John Miller, in 
the Durdham Down nursery, near Bristol, and 
were amongst the novelties exhibited there by him, 
to many of the members of the British Association, 
in 1836. He had received the seeds from Mr. 
Drummond, who discovered the plant in Texas. 
They were amongst the last, we believe, which were 
sent to this country by that indefatigable collector, 
he having died soon afterwards in Cuba, where he 
had proceeded in search of other rarities of the 
vegetable and animal kingdoms. 
Professor Don has instituted a new genus, named 
Ratibida, for this plant, on account of its differing 
in a trifling degree in its achinea and pappus from 
others of the genus Rudbeckia. 
It may be grown with success in sandy peat; and 
admits of division at the root. 
Loudon’s Ency. of PI. 730, 
165 
