cultivated in England. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 331 

 to the Royal Society, under the name of Matricaria Indica. 

 This specimen is preserved in the British Museum (Miller's 

 Specimens, No. 2112. Anno. 1764); it is small, and not 

 very perfect, but no doubt would be entertained that it is 

 referable to one of the varieties of the Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mum (perhaps the Rose or the Buff), did not Miller's 

 account* of the plant, in his Gardener's Dictionary, en- 

 tirely disagree with almost every particular of the Chinese 

 Chrysanthemum. Me states 'that it is produced naturally 

 in many parts of India, that he received it from Nimpu 

 (probably Ning-pu in China), where it grows plentifully; 

 that it rises to a foot and a half in height, dividing into many 

 branches furnished with angular oval leaves acutely serrated 

 on the edges, and of a pale colour ; that the flowers are 

 produced on foot-stalks, which rise from the wings of the 

 leaves, or which terminate the branches ; that they are very 

 double, and of the size of the double Feverfew. He does 

 not mention the colour of the flower, but adds that it blos- 

 soms in July, and in favourable seasons ripens seeds late in 

 the autumn ; that it is propagated by seeds, which should 

 be sown in spring on a hot-bed and treated in the manner 

 of a tender annual. If such was the plant from whence the 

 specimen was gathered, it is neither the Chrysanthemum 

 Indicum of Linnaeus nor one of our Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mums. But if Miller's Dictionary be in error, and the 

 specimen correct, we have on record another instance of the 

 introduction of one of these plants into Europe, and of its 



* See Article Matricaria Indica, in Miller's Dictionary, Eighth edition, 17t 



