224 A new Arrangement of the 



splendid 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, being, as it were, degenerated into almost buff- 

 coloured and spuriously quilled flowers, of more upright appearance 

 than the large, expanded, flat-petaled, and variegated purple whitish 

 and yellow-buffy ones so charmingly depicted in the figure cited. 

 They are of the middle season. 



30. Starry Changeable Purjyle ; The Starry 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 expanded spoon-shaped tips, soon, however, becoming still more 

 pale until the whole well 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 laciniated than 

 usual, and often broader 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. 333. 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 Brown 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 brownish 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 distinct 

 species from Chrysanthemum sinense, and differs not so much in leaf 

 as in flower from our No. 6., the Small deep Yellow ; above. 



* # # # * Tassel-flowered ; being tall or very tall plants 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 Tasseled Flame Yellow ; The Quilled Flame Yellow, Hort. Trans. 

 V. 4. tab. 14. p. 349. and v. 3. p. 421. The magnificent flowers of 

 this tall plant appear rather late, and often measure above five inches 

 in expansion ; 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 innumerable chiefly quilled incurving petals, hanging 

 more or less downwards, and when at their best resembling a flame- 

 coloured tassel. 



34. The Tasseled Salmon ; The Quilled Salmon, Hort. Trans, v. 3. tab. 1 7.* 

 (inferior figure) p. 414. and p. 422. This is a late-flowering, slender, 

 and graceful plant, with large tassel-like, and half-expanded drooping 

 quilled salmon-coloured flowers, and is very uncommon. 



33. The Tasseled Yellow, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 329. ;A very tall and 

 strong-growing large-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 

 most desirable and free-growing of the whole collection. 



36. The Quilled Yellow, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 341. and v. 3. p. 420. This 

 is a tall variety, with rather large flowers, of the middle season, or 

 later, producing its blossoms in clusters at the top of the strong 

 upright shoots. It is also known by the name of the Quilled Straw. 



