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PYRETHRUM roseum. 
Pink Pyrethrunu 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLU A. 
Nat. ord. Composite,. 
P YRETHRUM. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 272. 
P. roseum; foliis pinnatis glabris: pinnis bipinnatitidis pinnatifidisque, 
lacinulis aeutis divergentibus; caulibus erectis unifloris, calycibus glabris: 
squaniis margine sphacelatis. Bieb. taur. cauc. 2. 324.- Spreng. 
syst. 3. 587. 
Chrysanthemum coccineum. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 2144. sec. Bieb. 
Chrysanthemum roseum. Adam in Weber et Mohr, catal. 1. p. 1 0. sec. 
Bieb. 
Caules e radice perenni nonnulli, pedales, seu sesquipedales, striati, sim- 
plices, erecti. Folia composita, petiolata, facie Carui: pinnis circumscrip¬ 
tion/: b.ilitj sculis .folioruni inferior inn profundi bipinnatifidis: lacinulis brevibus, 
aeutis, divergentibus. Flos terminalis, solitarius, magnitudine Chrysanthemi 
leucanthemi: pedunculo nudo, sulcato, sub fore parum incrassato et subvil- 
loso. Calyx glabriusculus: squamis margine apieeque scariosis, nigris, 
subciliatis. Radius eleganter roseus, nec coccineus; discus luteus. Pappus 
margo angustus sublobatus. Bieb. 1. c. 
A handsome, hardy perennial, of which our drawing was 
made in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it 
had been raised from seeds received from Mr. Otto. A 
native of the Alpine regions of the Iberian and Eastern 
range of the Caucasus, flowering during the whole of the 
summer. In our gardens it is in perfection in May and 
June. 
We are glad of an opportunity of figuring this species, 
for the sake of contrasting it with the nearly allied P. car- 
neum, which has already been published in the Botanical 
Magazine, under the name of Chrysanthemum coccineum. 
From the latter it is distinguished by its larger flowers, 
