328 Account of the Varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums, 



posed it to be a double Chrysanthemum Indicum, but in his 

 memoir he called it Anthemis grandiflora, having satisfied 

 himself and the French botanists that it could not be the 

 Chrysanthemum Indicum of Linn2eus. When Curtis, in 

 1796", figured* and described the same plant in England, he, 

 without referring to the account of M. Ramatuelle (with 

 which he probably was not then acquainted, owing to the 

 state of hostility in which the two countries were placed), 

 called it Chrysanthemum Indicum, and this name has been 

 since generally applied to it in England. Were I to detail 

 the particulars of the investigation which I* have gone into, 

 in order to ascertain how for the Chinese Chrysanthemums 

 are properly referable to the Chrysanthemum Indicum of 

 LiNNiEus, the present Paper would be extended to an 

 inconvenient length, and the discussion might also be con- 

 sidered somewhat foreign to the purposes of the Society. I 

 will therefore only briefly state the result. 



The descriptions of the authors quoted by Linnjeus, and 

 the figures referred to, for both his varieties of Chrysanthe- 

 mum Indicum, all shew, that the plants he had in his mind 

 produced very small flowers, having a great resemblance to 

 the common Chamomile with single or double flowers; but 

 that the leaves were very similar to those of the Chinese 

 Chrysanthemums. It further appears that Lixnmus omitted 

 to refer to several descriptions and notices of plants by 

 writers of authority (some of whose works he has even quoted 

 in his account of the Chrysanthemum Indicum), which are 

 evidently applicable to the Chinese Chrysanthemums, and 



* See Botanical Magazine, plate 327. 



