Chrysopsis
(from chrysos, gold, and opsis, aspect; in allusion to the golden blossoms). ORD. Compositae. Hardy, herbaceous perennials. Pappus of the ray and disk-florets similar and double; the exterior short and scale-like; the inner of long, capillary bristles. Some of the species make excellent subjects for naturalising in a shrubbery or in the rougher parts of borders. They are easily grown in common soil. Propagated by division in spring. C. falcata (sickle-shaped). fl.-heads yellow, small, corymbose. August. l. crowded, linear, rigid, entire, somewhat recurved or scythe-shaped, sessile. h. 4in. to 10in. New Jersey.
C. mariana (Maryland). fl.-heads yellow, corymbose, on glandular peduncles. August to October. l. oblong. h. 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. New York. Plant silky with long and weak hairs, or, when old, smoothish.
C. trichophylla (hairy-leaved). fl.-heads yellow. June. l. narrow-oblong, sub-acute, hairy. Stem slender, 1ft. to 3ft. high. South United States, 1827. C. villosa (villous). fl.-heads yellow. July to September. l. narrowly oblong, hoary with rough pubescence (as is also the involucre), bristly-ciliate towards the base. Stem corymbosely branched, the branches terminated by single, short-peduncled heads. North America.