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XXIV. Observations on the Chrysanthemum (ndicum of Linnaeus, 



By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S. $c. 



Read December 18, 1821. 



Having been lately engaged in an examination* of the plants 

 cultivated in the English gardens under the name of Chinese 

 Chrysanthemums, and which have generally been considered by 

 English botanists as varieties of the Chrysanthemum Tndicum of 

 Linnaeus, I have been led to adopt the opinion, that the plants 

 which he intended to designate by that name, are different from 

 those to which the appellation has of late been applied in this 

 country. And as these plants were sufficiently described by 

 different writers, at the time when Linnaeus formed the character 

 of his species, and referred it to the plants of various authors 

 which he quoted, I consider that his omission of reference to the 

 others must be taken as evidence that he did not deem it expe- 

 dient to unite the whole. 



When the first of the Chinese Chrysanthemums now in our 

 gardens was introduced into France in 1789, M. Ramatuellet, 

 who published an account of it, called it Anthemis grandiftora. 

 Willdenowj subsequently, in 1801, placed it under the same 

 genus ; but he gave it another specific name, calling it Anthemis 



* See Horticultural Transactions, vol. iv. p. 326. "Account and Description of 

 the Varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums, &c." 

 f Journal d'Histoire Naturelie, vol. ii. p. 235. 

 f Wilklenow in Nov. Jet. Soc. Nat. Sclent. Berol. vol. iii. p. 451. 



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