CHRYSANTHEMUMS 291 
2 inches across, golden yellow; rays lobed at tips; June to September. 
Annual. The var. grandiflorum has larger flowers. 
C. SINENSE (Chinese). Autumn Chrysanthemum. A straggling shrub 
about 3 feet high, with yellow flowers 14 inch across, with distinct ray- 
and disk-florets. Cultivated kinds very variable in all respects. Stems, 
shrubby, branching, 3 to 6 feet high. Leaves thick, leathery, glaucous, 
with waved lobes and teeth. Flower-head varying in size and colour, from 
white, yellow, and lilac to deep red and mauve; October and November. 
Plates 148-150. 
C. TcHIHATCHEWII(Tchihatcheff’s). Stems trailing, plant2 to 3 inches 
high. Leaves deeply incised, small. wer-heads, white, a little more 
than 1 inch across. Perennial. Native of Siberia. Introduced 1869. 
Garden Varieties I. SINGLE-FLOWERED. In this section the flower- 
ofC.sinense. heads are similar in arrangement to those of C. 
carinatum, having strap-shaped florets only at the circumference, whilst 
those of the disk remain short and tubular. 
Helianthus, rich yellow Miss Cannell, pure white. 
Oceana, blush. 
Purity, purest 
except colour, which is canary-yellow. 
II. INCURVED SECTION. 
whit 
Queen of the Yellows, yellow. 
s | Scarlet Gem, scarlet. 
| The Echo, terra-cotta, dwarf, bushy. 
Florets of the disk as well as of the ray strap- 
shaped, their tips curved towards the centre of the flower-head. 
Beau Ideal, bright rose- seen 
Black Lotus, very dark ¢ 
Charles H. Curtis, deep cchlak: very large. 
E. Forgeot, purple-amaranth, under-sides 
il : 
silvery. 
Gold Dust, denon golden yellow. 
— enormous pote -heads, 
seme: — lvery 
J. peo pirat 
Jeanne d Arc, nike ‘whit 
John Machar, brilliant dep yellow. 
Leviathan, violet sgn 
Miss Bronna Foster, dee 
Miss Elsie T sichtnann, sciiy white, 
III. REFLEXED SECTION. 
from the centre. 
Admiral 
rosy 
Gervais, pale lilac, 
Col. T. C. Bourne, blood-r 
John Lightfoot, blush, e 
d ead ink. 
La Be - ata r, blush, white, early | 
flow 
tipped 
M. Henri oe flesh, striped with 
violet-carmin 
Mrs. . Blair, *si with streaks of deeper 
Mrs. Smith Rylands, golden yellow. 
Owen’s Crimson, blooms 5 inches across. 
Owen Sheseiam yellow, 8 inches across, late 
bloo 
The Eg rel dark eign red. 
The Queen, grand w 
s. H. Brown, bright pink. 
Wilfred Marshall, lemon-yellow 
William Tunnington, reddish “chestnut, 
with dull gold tips, weak-grow 
Florets strap-shaped, curving a 
Lady Randolph, amaranth-crimson, very 
dwarf. 
| Maria Louise, white 
| M. Benj. Giraud, crimson-red, florets 
slashed. 
_ Milky White, opaque white. 
