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LI. Account and Description of the Varieties of Chinese 

 Chrysanthemums which at present are cultivated in England; 

 with Observations on the Difference between the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Indicum of Linn/eus and those Plants. By Joseph 

 Sabine, Esq. F. R.S. Sec. Secretary. 



Read February 20th, 1821. 



The Chrysanthemums, of which I now propose to give de- 

 scriptions, are natives of China or Japan, and with the single 

 exception of the Purple, are very recent introductions. They 

 contribute so much to the beauty of our gardens in a fine 

 autumn, and of our conservatories in the months of Novem- 

 ber and December, when scarcely any other plants are in 

 blossom, that they are peculiarly deserving the attention of 

 the ornamental gardener. In the autumn of last year twelve 

 varieties (all that were then known in this country), whose 

 flowers and habits have been well ascertained, were culti- 

 vated in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Much diversity of opinion has existed amongst botanical 

 writers as to the true generic name of the species to which 

 these plants belong. The foreign botanists of later times 

 have considered it as an Anthemis, and with them it has 

 been successively named * Anthemis grandiflora,t Anthe- 



* Ramatuelle in Journal d'Histoire Naturelle, vol. ii. page 233. Des- 

 fontaines Histoire des Arbres, &c. vol. i. page 315. 



f Willdenow Species Plantarum, vol. iii. page 2184. Willdenow 

 knumeratio Plantarum, vol. ii. page 911. 



