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mis Artemisiaefolia,* Anthemis stipulacea. Modern Eng- 

 lish writers on plants have nearly all concurred in calling it 

 Chrysanthemum Indicum, and under that name it will be 

 found in the second edition of the Hortus Kcne?isis,f in the 

 Botanical Magazine, and in the Botanical Register. In 

 Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis it appears with 

 Willdenow's name of Anthemis Artemisiaefolia. 



This difference respecting the name arises from the cir- 

 cumstance of small pateae or chaff, being found on the recep- 

 tacle of the flowers of the Chinese Chrysanthemums at the 

 base of the florets ; these are characteristic of the Genus 

 Anthemis, the receptacle of Chrysanthemum being always 

 without paleae ; but the accession of these appendages to the 

 florets, in our plants, are considered by the advocates of the 

 latter appellation as the effect of cultivation and of the 

 change in the form of the flowers ; for they are of opinion 

 that if the original type in its single state could be ascer- 

 tained and examined, it would be found destitute of paleae. 



The name of Chrysanthemum Indicum originated with 

 Linn^eus^ in 1753; he divided the species into two varie- 

 ties, one apparently with single, the other with double 

 flowers. In 1789 a living plant of the Purple Chinese Chrys- 

 anthemum was brought from China into France, being 

 the first of the species introduced, in modern times, into 

 Europe ; when it blossomed, an account and description of 

 it were published by M. Ramatuelle,§ who at first sup- 



* Moench Supplementum ad Methodum Plantarum, page 25 S. 

 f Hortus Kewensis, Edit. 2, vol. v. page 95. 

 % Species Plantarum, Edit. 1, vol. ii. page 889. 

 § Journal d'Histoire Naturellc, vol. ii. page 233. 



