144 On the Cuhivatio)i of the Chinese Chysanthemums. 



27. The Superb Clustered Yellow, Horf. Trans, v. 5. p. 156. and v. 5. p. 421. 

 and Swein's Brit. Fl. Gard. tab. 14. One of tlie finest and tallest of the 

 group, b(;ing liijflier than tlie preceding, and witli more clustered and 

 more neatly feriiied, pure yellow fiovvers, but tliey are later in opening. 



"28. The Gulden Lotus-Jluwered, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 340. A very splendid 

 and large long-leaved variety, and nearly or cpiite the tallest of tliis genus 

 of plants; liaving late, pure, and de^p yellow flowers, above the middle 

 size, and larger than those of any other yellow kind of the marigold 

 form, and which partially endure until the heavier frosts of winter de- 

 stroy them. 



■29. The Changeable Pale Buff, Plort. Trans, v. C. p. 380. and tab. .3. Also 

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

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

 splendid in the group ; but liiis has not been the case during the autumn 

 of 1832; all the flowers, and in various gardens wliich met the writer's 

 eye, being, as it were, degenerated into almost buff-colored and spuri- 

 ously quilled flowers, of more upright ap|)earance than the large, expand- 

 ed, flat ])etaled, and variegated ])urple whitish and yellow-bufly ones, 

 so charmingly depicted in the figure cited. They are of the nnddle 

 season. 



30. Starry Changeable Purple ; The Starry Purple, Ilort. Trans, v. 6. p. 339. 

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

 its very late flowers first opening of a |)urple color, with the exterior pe- 

 tals at first few in nun)ber, starry aiidjialer, especially at their expanded 

 spr)on-sliaped tips, soon, however, becoming still more |)ale until the 

 whole well exp;ui<led and very double blossom becomes regularly more 

 biush-cfilored and white, than ])ur|)le. 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 laciniated than usual, and often broad- 

 er in their outline than long, which is not the case with any other in the 

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

 a distinct species from all the others. 



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

 V. 5. p. 422. and v 6. p. 353. Also called Large Pale Purple. This is 

 a very late flowering and rather tall variety, wliose middling-sized and 

 well expanded blossoms are very neat, and resemble in shajje those of 

 the preceding, but are much smaller. 



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

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

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

 their color in the group is very ren>arkable, being of a very dull brown- 

 ish or reddish pin-ple. The leaves are so small and so bluntly lobed, 

 and on such slender shoots, terminating in such long and graceful pe- 

 duncles, that the plant is probai)ly a distinct species from Chrysantliie- 

 mmn sinense, and differs not so much in leaf as in flower from cm- No. 

 6., the Small Deep Yellow; above. 



***** Tasskl-flowered ; being tall or very tall plants in their genus, 

 with very large doui)le, and more or less conspicuously drooping flowers^ 

 whose petals are usually elongated and quilleil, and often greatly resemble 

 the fortn of a tassel. 



33. The Tassekd Flame Yellow; The quilled Flame Yellow, Hort. Trans. 

 V. 4. tab. 14. ]). 349. and v. 5. p. 421. The miignificeut flowers of this 

 tall plant appear rather late, and often measure above five inches in ex- 

 l)ansion ; and make, |)erhaps, if not a more neat, at least a more showy 

 appearance than any other of the group, being doidjle, and com|)osed of 

 innumeralde chiefly quilled incurving petals, hanging more or less down- 

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



