Tas. 7965. - 
CHRYSANTHEMUM ornarum. 
Native of Japan, 
Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER. 
Genus Curysantuemum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. ii, p. 424.) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM ornatum; herba perennis, ramosa, 2-3 ped. alta, caulibus 
ramisque gracilibus angulatis albo-pubescentibus, foliis exstipulatis graci- 
liter petiolatis papyraceis crassis discoloribus subtus albis circumscriptione 
ovatis in ramis floriferis 14-3 poll. longis subpalmatim pinnatifidis 
segmentis obtusis vel rotundatis subtus margineque albo-tomentosis 
supra atroviridibus sparse pubescentibus, capitulis laxe corymbosis 
distincte pedunculatis 14-2 poll. diametro, involucri bracteis circiter 
3-seriatis omnibus similibus ovato-oblongis obtusis medio albo-tomentosis 
margine brunneo-purpureis, acheeniis glabris obliquis. 
C. ornatum, Hemsi. - ; 
C. marginatum, Rafill in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 51, fig. 22, non 
Pyrethrum marginatum, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 86=C. marginatum, 
N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1888, p. 99. a 
The late C. J. Maximowicz, who was a very critical 
Botanist, and whose knowledge of the plants of Eastern ~ 
Asia was based on observations in the country itself, 
enlarges (Mélanges Biologiques, vol. viii. p. 519) on the 
difficulties of dealing with the forms of Chrysanthemum, or, 
as he preferred calling it, Pyrethrum sinense, DC., and» 
CO. indicum, L., although the strictly wild specimens left no 
doubt of there being two distinct species concerned in the 
varieties resulting from over a thousand years’ cultivation 
in China and Japan. 
We were in doubt as to the best way of naming the 
plant figured, but arrived at the conclusion that the least 
unsatisfactory way was to give it a single name, without 
attempting to decide whether it should be regarded as a 
variety of C. sinense. 3 
By some mischance, but probably on account of the 
strong resemblance in the foliage, it has appeared in some 
of the gardening papers under the designation of Chrysan- 
themum marginatum (Pyrethrum marginatum, Miq. Fi. Ind. 
Bat. vol. ii. p. 86), a species having very numerous quite 
small flower-heads usually destitute of ray-flowers. | 
JuLy Ist, 1904, 
