144 Mr. SABINE on the Generic and Specific Characters 
with the characters given by Linnæus to his Chrysanthemum In- 
dicum, and agreeing not only with the descriptions of the authors 
he had referred to, but with the specimens of the different Her- 
baria in which the plant referred to by Linnæus as his C. Indicum 
was to be formed. ‘The whole appearance of it is so decidedly 
different from that of any of the Chinese Chrysanthemums, that 
even before it blossomed, doubts of their specific identity might 
have been entertained, without much examination; but the blos- 
soms are so different, that in its flowering state, they could not 
possibly be taken for the same. 
The following characters and descriptions with reference to 
the different works in which the two species are treated of, is the 
result of the comparison instituted. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM INDICUM. 
C. foliis flaccidis petiolatis pinnatifidis crebrè dentatis; supremis 
integerrimis, radio calyce paulo longiore, caule fruticoso. 
Matricaria Japonica flore minore, &c. Breyn. Prod. ii. p. 66. 
Tsjetti-pu. Rheede Hort. Mal. vol. x. p. 87. tab. 44. 
Matricaria Madraspatana, &c. Mus. Pet. p. 70. no. 786. 
Chrysanthemum Madraspatanum, &c. Pluk. Alm. p. 101. 
tab. 160. fig. 6. 
Matricaria Sinensis, minore flore, &c. Pluk. Amalth. p. 142. 
tab. 430. fig. 3. 
Matricaria Indica, &c. Moris. Hist. vol. iii. p. 33. 
Matricaria Sinensis, &c. Vaillant Act. 1720. p. 285. 
Matricaria Zeylanica hortensis, kc. Radi Supp. p. 224. 
Matricaria flore pleno magno. Herm. Mus. Zeylan. p. 33. 
Burm. Thes. Zeylan. p. 153. 
Matricaria Zeylanica hortensis, &c. Linn. Flor. Zeylan. p. 198. 
no. 421. 
Matricaria Sinensis, Rumph. Amboin. vol. v. p.259. iab.91. fig. 1. 
Chrysan- 
