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X. On the Generic and Specific Characters of the Chrysanthemum 

 Indicum of Linnceus, and of the Plants called Chinese Chrysan- 

 themums. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. ^c. 



Read March 18, 1823. 



In a former communication* to the Linnean Society, I endea- 

 voured to establish the correctness of my opinion, that the plants 

 now cultivated in our gardens under the name of Chinese Chry- 

 santhemums, had been improperly referred to the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Indicum of Linnaeus. Since the paper alluded to was 

 written, I have had opportunities of examining and comparing 

 living specimens of what I consider the real Chrysanthemum Indi- 

 cum with those of the Chinese Chrysanthemum ; which latter I 

 now design to characterize as a distinct species under the name 

 of Chrysanthemum Sinense. 



Among several varieties of the Chinese Chrysanthemums re- 

 cently imported by the Horticultural Society, are some in which 

 the ligulate florets are only radial, or in the circumference, the 

 disc being occupied with tubular florets ; these are consequently 

 in a state more nearly resembling (if not entirely assimilating with) 

 the natural type than any of the varieties in which the ligulate 

 florets extend over the whole or nearly the whole surface of the 

 disc, and which are considered as double flowers, those varieties 

 previously known being all more or less of this latter description. 

 On examination of the flowers of the new varieties above alluded 



* Observations on the Chrysanthemum Indicum of Linnaeus, vol. xiii. p. 56 1. 



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