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(bnn, and whicli partially endure until the heavier frosts of winter 

 destroy them. 

 20. The Changeable Pale Buff, Hort. Trans, v. G. p. 380. and tab. 3. Also 

 called the Pale Cluster. This plant when flowering is perfectly as it is 

 represented on the above cited table, is one of the most showy and splen- 

 did in the group; but this has not been the case during the autumn of 

 1832; all the flowers, and in various gardens, which met the writer's eye, 

 beiu?, as it were, degenerated into almost buff-coloured and spuriously 

 quilled flowers, of more upright appearance than the large, expanded, 

 flatpetaled, and variegated purple whiti^h and yellow-bufty ones so 

 charmingly depicted in the figure cited. They are of the middle season. 



30. Starry Chaiigeahle Purple ; The Starnj Purple, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 339. 

 This beautiful plant is one of the most variable flowered in the genus; 

 its very late flowers first opening of a purple colour, with the exterior 

 petals at first few in number, starry, and paler, especially at their ex- 

 panded spoon-shaped tips, soon, however, becoming still more pale until 

 the whole expanded and very double blossom becomes regularly more 

 blush coloured and white, than purple, and is a very fine, well- formed, 

 variegated flower. The stature of the plant is of the middle size, but its 

 remarkable leaves are much more lacineated than usual, and often broiider 

 in their outline than lon^, which is not the case with any other in the 

 proup, and of very considerable size. Wherefore I conceive it may be a 

 distiuct species from all the others. 



31. 7he Late Purple ; The Late Pale Purple, Hort. Trans, v. 5. p. 413, and 

 V. 5. p. 422, and v. 6. p. 3o3. Also called Large Pale Purple. This is a 

 very late-flowering and rather tall variety, whose middling-sized and well 

 expanded blossoms are very neat, and resemble in shape those of the 

 preceding, but are much smaller. 



32. The Bruwn Purple, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 341-2. A tall and slender- 

 twigged very late- flowering variety, whose middle-sized flowers resemble 

 the last in shape, but are not quite so flat and neat in expansion, and 

 their colour in the group is very remarkable, being of a very dull brown- 

 ish or reddish purple. The leaves are so small, and so bluntly lobed, and 

 on such slender shoots, terminating in such long and graceful peduncles, 

 that the plant is probably a distinctspecies from Chrysanthemum sinense, 

 and difl'ers, not so much in leaf ajs in flower from our No. 6, the Small deep 



Yellow ; above. 



***** Tassel-flowered ; being tall or very tall p'ants in their genus, with 

 very large double, and more or less conspicuously drooping flowers, whose 

 petals are usually elongated and quilled, and often greatly resemble the 

 form of a tassel. 



33. The Tasael Flamed Yellow ; The Quilled Flamed Yellow, Hart. Trans, v. 

 4. tab. 14. p. 349. and v. 5. p. 42 ». The magnificent flowers jf this tall 

 plant a])pear rather late, and often measure above five inches in expan- 

 »iou; and make perhaps, if not a more neat at least a more showy 

 appearance than any other of the group, being double, and composed of 

 Ininunerable chiefly <]uilled incurving petals, hanging more or less down- 

 wards, and when at their best resembling a flame coloured tassel. 



34. Tht Tasseled Salmon ; The Quilled Salmon, Hort. Trans, v. 5. tab. 17. 

 p. 414. and p. 422. 'i'his is a late-flowering, slender, and graceful plant, 

 with large tasseMike, and half-expanded drooping quilled salmon-coloured 

 flowers, and is very unconunon, 



3.0. The Tasteled Yellow, Hort. Trans, v. C, p. 329. A very tall and strong- 

 growing larife leaved variety, with numerous tassel formed flowers of the 

 largest and most showy kind, often measuring more than five inches over, 

 and appearing rather early. It is one of the must desirable and free- 

 growing uf the wliole collection. 



3«. TIte Quillnl Yellow, Hort. 'irans. v. 4. ]). 341. and v. 5. p. 420. This is 

 u tull variety, with rullicr large flowers, of the middle season, or later, 

 producing its hlnssonis in eluNters at the top of the strong upright shoots. 

 It iit alvo kuuwii by the name of the (luilled Straw. 



