Favoured as well by the unusual warmth of the summer 
as by the prolonged mildness of the autumn, the plant flow- 
ered last November in the borders of the garden at Boyton 
House, Wiltshire: in an ordinary season we suspect it 
would not have done so in the same situation. 
A finely divided deep green foliage disposed in pairs 
upon a branching stem of six or eight feet high terminated 
by corymbs of a numerous golden-coloured blossom, ren- 
der the plant one of the most desirable of the larger horti- 
cultural ornaments. 
Native samples, ticketted Corropsis angustifolia, are 
deposited in the Lambertian Herbarium. They came along 
with a valuable collection of Mexican plants lately received 
from M. Payon. 
The awns of the seed being barbedly pubescent show the 
plant to be no Corgopsis, and bring it nearer to Bivens, 
where we have placed it; though it differs in some degree 
from that genus also (according to Mr. Kunth’s definition) 
in haying flat cuneiform seed with deciduous (not perma- 
nent) awns. ‘The fact however is, that the awns are not 
strictly permanent in Bipens, but fall off spontaneously on 
the seed coming to perfect maturity. 
The genus belongs to Helianthece-coreopsidec, the se- 
cond section of Helianthece, the ninth tribe of the order 
Synantherece of the able and elaborate arrangement by M. 
Cassini. But why are the established appellations Syn- 
genesia and Composite to be laid aside for Synantherece ? 
Don MSS. 
