on the Chrysanthemum Iniiicum of Linnaus. u \ 



In addition to this evidence from the Linnaaii Herbarium, 

 there are two Herbaria in the invaluable colled ions procured by 

 the late Sir Joseph Banks (whose unremitting seal in the service 

 of science, and endeavours to promote all that was good and 

 useful for the benefit of mankind, will be remembered with gra- 

 titude by those who had the happiness to possess his friendship, 

 and by all who have the real interest of science at heart >, w Inch, 

 by the assistance they afford in this inquiry, are a proof of the 

 peculiar utility of the preservation of well attested specimens. 

 The first is an Herbarium formerly the property of Hermann; 

 in it the identical specimens on which liis Thesaurus Zeylanicus 

 was formed are contained, being also the specim< as n hich pass* d 

 under the eye of Linnaeus when he compiled the Flora Zetflanica, 

 The specimen of the Chrysanthemum Tndicum has small double 

 flowers, and thus the precedence of the double \am i\ in the 

 Flora Zeylanica is in some measure accounted for ; it is in three 

 distinct pieces, two being flowering branches, and the third 

 part having leaves only, probably all gathered from (he same 

 plant, which appears to have grown with vigour; and, except 

 in the impletion of the flowers and greater size of the branches 

 and leaves, accords in character with the Linmvan specimens. 

 The other Herbarium is a volume of plants which belonged to 

 Plukenet, and which contains three specimens deserving notice, 

 as they all tend to elucidate this inquiry. The first is at the 

 upper part of page 117 of the volume ; it has been ticketed by 

 Dr. Solander as Chrysanthemum Inc/icum, and by a note in old 

 writing attached to it, is made the Matricaria Sinensis of the 

 Amaltheum, which is quoted by Linnams for his Chrysanthemum 

 Indicum ; it is as near as possible the same (only that it is dou- 

 ble) as Linnaeus's specimen, which 1 distinguished as baring 

 short footstalks. Another specimen, at the bottom of the same 

 page, has been ticketed as Chrysanthemum dubium by Dr. Sdlan- 



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