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GENUS Y. 
CALLIOPSIS, Reich. THE CALLIOPSIS. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Generic Character. —Flowers of the ray neuter, ligulate, 3 to inner series large, and erect. Receptacle flat, covered with linear 
5-toothed; those of the disk hermaphrodite, tubular. Involucral deciduous palese. Fruit compressed, naked, truncate, 
scales in two sericB; outer series short and squarrose; those of the 
Description, &c.— The plants contained in this genus have been separated from those retained in the genus 
Coreopsis, on account of the palea of the receptacle being in the one case deciduous and in the other persistent; 
hut this difference is of course only discoverable by a botanist on dissecting the flower. The names of the two 
genera, though somewhat similar in sound, have, however, a very different origin : Coreopsis being derived from 
koris, a bug, and opsis, the look of, in allusion to the shape of the seeds ; and Calliopsis being derived from 
kallistos, the Greek word for most beautiful, in allusion to the beauty of the flowers. 
1.—CALLIOPSIS TINCTORIA, Dec. THE DYEING CALLIOPSIS. 
Synonymes. —Coreopsis tinctoria, Nutt. ; Diplosastera tinctoria, 
Tausel. ; Calliopsis bicolor, Reich. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 2512; Bot. Reg. t. 846 ; and our Jig. 
11, in Plate 31. 
Specific Character. —Radical leaves pinnate, or bipinnate, with 
entire lobes ; upper leaves tripartitely multifid, tvith linear lobes. The 
fruit is minutely tuberculated, and wingless. 
Variety. —C. t. 2 atrosanguinea, Mound's Bot. Gard. t. 538. 
The flowers are dark-red. 
Description, &c. —A very showy and well-known garden annual, with bright, orange-yellow flowers, more 
or less stained with blotches of dark-red; growing two or three feet high, much branched, and spreading widely 
in proportion to its height. It is a native of North America, where it was discovered in 1821, by Professor 
Nuttall, covering whole tracts of land in the Arkansas territory, between the Missouri and the Mississippi. It 
was particularly abundant on the vast plains of somewhat elevated ground near the Red River; and there the 
inhabitants used the dried flowers for dyeing red, on which account Nuttall gave the plant the specific name of 
tinctoria , signifying dyeing. Calliopsis tinctoria was first supposed to be tender, but it is now found quite hardy, 
so much so, indeed, that it may be sown in autumn, to stand through the winter, without any care. Thus 
treated, it will produce very large and fine plants, which will flower early in May. The common treatment is, 
however, to sow it in the open border in February or March, and when the plants are two or three inches high, 
to thin them out, or transplant them, so as to leave the plants that are to flower at least six inches apart every 
way. Three plants will be quite sufficient for a tuft ; and as they have very slender stems, they should each be 
tied to two or three thin sticks painted green, which should be driven firmly into the ground ; or, what is perhaps* 
better, each plant may be drawn through a dahlia hoop. 
2.—CALLIOPSIS ATKINSONIANA, Hook. MR. ATKINSON’S CALLIOPSIS. 
Synonyme. —Coreopsis Atkinsoniana, Dougl. stem-leaves pinnate, with narrow subspatulatc lobes. Fruit margined 
Engravings. —Bot. Reg. t. 1376; and our fig. 14, in Plate 31. with a short wing, quite smooth. 
Specific Character.— Radical leaves bipinnate, with entire lobes ; 
Description, &c. —Very distinct from C. tinctoria , in its flowers being of a pale yellow, less blotched, 
smaller, more cup-shaped, and more numerous. It is marked in the Bot. Reg. as a perennial, but we have always 
found it succeed quite well treated as an annual, and if sown at the same time as C. tinctoria , it generally comes 
into flower a few days before that species. It was found by Douglas in 1825, growing abundantly on an 
island in the river Columbia in California. 
