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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
3.—CALLIOPSIS DRUMMOND I, D. Don. DRUMMOND’S CALLIOPSIS. 
Synonymes. —Coreopsis diversifolia, Hook. ; C. auriculata, var. 
diversifolia, Elliott. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3474 ; Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. 2nd 
Ser., t. 315 ; and our fig. 9, in Plate 31. 
Specific .Character. —Plant hairy, or glabrous. Leaves ternate, 
pinnate, and sometimes bipinnate. Leaflets roundish, obovate ; obtuse, 
quite entire. Involucral scales with both series joined at the base. 
Flowers of the ray, quadrifid at the apex. Fruit oval, awnless, with a 
flat dish, and a thickened margin. 
Description, &c. —When Mr. Drummond, the botanical collector, was at Texas, in Mexico, in 1834, he 
found large tracts of land covered with different kinds of Calliopsis, among which was this beautiful annual, 
which appeared to him, as it really is, much larger and finer than any of its congeners. He sent seeds to the 
Botanic Garden, Glasgow, which arrived in February 1835, and being sown immediately in the open air, 
produced flowers the following July. In the neighbourhood of London, seeds sown in March generally produce 
their flowers in June. The plant itself is of the easiest culture ; for as it does not grow above a foot, or a foot and 
a half high, and has a much stronger stem than C. linctoria , it does not require staking and tying up. As it 
does not branch so much, it also will not require thinning out, unless the seed has been sown very thickly. The 
specimen figured in our Plate 31, gives a very unfavourable idea of the plant, as the flowers are generally nearly 
twice as large ; and certainly always larger, on an average, than those of the Sphenogyne speciosa , which is figured 
in the same plate as the Calliopsis. 
OTHER SPECIES. 
C. FILIFOLIA, Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 3505. 
One of the species of this genus, found by Drummond in Texas, and sent home by him with C. Drummondi. 
The flowers are smaller and more cup-shaped than those of that species; the florets of the ray are narrow, 
numerous, and quite yellow, and those of the disk are scarlet. The leaves are long and very narrow. The name 
is in Charlwood’s seed-catalogue. 
C. CORONATA, Ilook. 
Another species found by Drummond in Texas. The florets of the ray are very numerous, and they are 
long, narrow, and sharply dentated. They are of a bright orange, with a very singular ring of dark red spots 
spreading round the centre of the corolla, at a considerable distance from the disk, which is yellow, and much 
smaller than the disk of these flowers generally is. The root is very small, and somewhat carrot-shaped, and the 
stem being very weak and slender, requires tying up. The name of this species is also in Charlwood’s catalogue. 
GENUS YI. 
HELIANTHUS, Lin. THE SUN-FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Generic Character. —Head of many flowers. Flowers of the ray 
ligulate, neuter, those of the disk tubular, hermaphrodite ; involucral 
scales irregularly imbricated; outer ones foliaceous, acute, appendicu- 
lated, inner ones smaller, palea-formed. Receptacle flat, or convex ; 
covered with half-clasping oblong paleie. Fruit compressed, or subte- 
tragonal, villous or glabrous. Pappus generally of two small scales, or 
awns. 
1.—HELIANTHUS ANNUUS, Lin. THE ANNUAL SUNFLOWER. 
Specific Character.— Stem generally simple. Leaves alternate, cordate, or nerved, coarsely serrated. Heads large, drooping. Scales of invo- 
lucrum ciliated. Fruit of the disk furnished with two awns. 
Description, &c.— The common sun-flower is a native of Peru, where it was regarded in the time of the 
Incas as a sacred flower, and imitations of it in gold were worn by the virgins of the sun, at their great festivals. 
