on the Chrysanthemum Tndicum of Linnaus. 563 



be found in the wild state of the species, and that therefore the 

 placing them under Chrysanthemum was still correct. 



In the Botanical Regisier (p. .327.), under the article Anthe- 

 mis apiifolia, will be found the reasons why it is still considered 

 proper to refer the plants in question to Chrysanthemum ; but 

 this is not a point which I am desirous of entering into, my only 

 object being to ascertain what plants were considered by Lin- 

 nieus as belonging to his Chrysanthemum Indicum, and whether 

 it is not probable that he contemplated the separation of die 

 Chinese Chrysanthemums from it. 



The first notice of Chrysanthemum Indicum, as a species, under 

 that name, is in the first edition of the Species Plantarum*, 

 published in 1753. In that work Linmrus makes two varieties 

 of the plant ; his first, the Var. a, is described from his own 

 Herbarium, and is also referred to a description and figure of 

 Plukenet; the Var. j3 is referred to another plant, which is also 

 described and figured by Plukenet, as well as to Linmeus's own 

 account in his Flora Zeylanica^' of a specimen in the Herbarium 

 collected by Hermann, between the years lt>70 and 10'77, in the 

 Island of Ceylon. It seems, from the observations in the Flora 

 Zeylanica, that in considering the plant as belonging to Chry- 

 santhemum, the attention of Linnoeus had not been directed to 

 the paleoe on the receptacle, but to the formation of the calyx, 

 which appeared to accord with that of Chrysanthemum ; so that. 

 in fact, this point of difference between the two genera of Chry- 

 santhemum and Anthemis, which is so much relied on by later 

 botanists, had not been under Linnaeus's consideration when he 

 fixed the place of the plant he had described. 



Before I proceed further to observe on the works referred to 

 by Linnaeus, it will be expedient to examine the original writers 



* vol. ii. p. 88f). t Flo/ a Zei/tanuu, p. 198. no. 421. 



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