350 Account of the Varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums 



be certainly considered as valuable acquisitions, I have ob- 

 tained representations of both the single and double varieties, 

 which are here given, in order to point out more exactly the 

 objects to be obtained. The first of these, the single plant, 

 is taken from a Chinese specimen in the Herbarium of the 

 late Sir Joseph Banks, now in the possession of my friend 

 Mr. Robert Brown, and with his permission drawn by 

 Mr. Hooker. The figures of the double variety are copied 

 from one of the drawings of Chinese plants in the collection 

 belonging to the East India Company, in their library in 

 Leadenhall Street. It will be observed that the flowers on 

 one of the branches of this last figure are quite double, whilst 

 those on the other branch shew a small disc ; they were 

 probably taken from two distinct plants. These two figures 

 will clearly illustrate what is considered as Linn^us's Chrys- 

 anthemum Indicum in a single and double state. 



The first introduction of the Chinese Chrysanthemums into 

 this country is stated in the Hortus Kewensis* to have oc- 

 curred previous to 1764, in which year a specimen of one 

 from the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea was presented* 



* Second edition, volume v. page 95. 



f Philosophical Transactions, for 1765, vol. lv. page 91. By the deed 

 of conveyance of the land forming the Botanical (iarden at Chelsea from 

 Sir Hans Sloane to the Apothecaries' Company in 1722, they were bound 

 to present to the Royal Society fifty dried specimens of distinct plants from 

 the garden annually, until two thousand had been delivered. In August 

 in the same year, Mr. Philip Miller, who was then recently appointed the 

 gardener, prepared the first fifty of these specimens, and the practice was 

 continued until a larger number than the condition demanded had been pre- 

 sented. The last regular presentation was in February 1774, four years after 

 Miller s death, and with this the number amounted to 2550 specimens, or 

 51 different presentations, since the year 1722. Subsequently they were not 

 m regularly presented, and the last contribution of these specimens was in 1794. 



