on the Chrysanthemum Indicum of Linnccus. 565 



some way connected with them, and therefore I notice them, 

 though I do not suppose that they belong to those on which I am 

 now treating. 



Thunberg in his Flora Japonica, published in 1784, describes ' 

 the plant which he considers as Linnaeus's Chrysanthemum In- 

 dicum, and refers it to the preceding account of Kamipl'er. 

 He states, that it is called by the Japanese t Kikokf, Kiko m 

 Fauna, Kik, Kikf, or Kikku; that it has many varieties, different 

 in the colour as well as size of the flowers ; and also that there 

 are single- and double-flowering plants of it: that it is much cul- 

 tivated in the houses and gardens of Japan, on account of the 

 beauty of its flowers ; that it prows spontaneously ;it Papenberg 

 near Nagasaki, and other places in Japan ; and that it flowers in 

 the summer and autumn months. 



Loureiro published his Description of the Plants of Cochin- 

 china in 1790, and amongst them enumerated J the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Indicum of Linnaeus, to whose Species Flantarum he refers, 

 adopting his character of the plant. Loureiro 's description of 

 the stem and leaves belongs exactly to the Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mums, and it was certainly those plants which he meant to de- 

 scribe. He represents them as having double flowers ; that is, 

 with the florets all ligulate, and adds, that their receptacles were 

 naked; but to this last assertion I attach little importance, it 

 being probable that, as he knew that the genus (according to 

 Linnaeus) ought to have that character, he assigned it without 

 examination ; we know the fact to be, that their receptacles are 



* Thunberg Flora Japonica, p. 320. Chrysanthemum Indicum. 



"f Some of these names are slightly different from those given by Kzempfer, but the 

 difference is only in the terminations, of which there are several united to Kik. The 

 addition in the second name is only expressive of elegance; the term Fauna being 

 usually added by the Japanese, when they desire to mark a plant as possessing such 

 character. 



% Flora Cochinchinensis, p. 499- edit. 2.; a Willdenow, yo\.\\. p. 6 10. 



vol. xiii. 4 d chaffy. 



