336 Account of the Varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums 



Quilled of the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and the 

 variety 17, or QuilJed Purple, of Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus. 

 Occasionally a branch of this will produce white flowers, 

 and from such accidental sport the next kind was, I be- 

 lieve, originally obtained ; the sporting branch being taken 

 off and propagated, the variation became fixed. M. Rama- 

 tuelle, in his description* of the flowers produced on 

 the plant in Provence, mentions that the ligulate florets 

 were sprinkled with small yellow dust, which was sweet- 

 scented ; the flowers at Paris were without this addition, nor 

 has it, as far as I can learn, ever been observed in this 

 country ; it was probably caused by the greater heat of the 

 climate of the South of Prance. 



2. The Changeable White Chrysanthemum, has also been 

 called the Old White, the Early White, and Lee's White. 

 This being a sported variety from the purple, it consequently 

 agrees in all points with that plant, except in the colour of 

 the flowers. The variation of its flowers are great ; some- 

 times the florets are pure white, especially in a cold situa- 

 tion; sometimes the backs of the inner florets, and the 

 whole of the outer florets, are a pale purple ; sometimes each 

 floret will be striped purple and white, and thence it has got 

 the name of the Magpie Chrysanthemum ; when in a warm 

 aspect, and in a fine autumn, the centre florets will be purple 



boineme (vol. v, page 259, tab. 91, fig. J,) of his Matricaria Sinensis, are 

 detailed at some length, as if applicable to the Chinese Chrysanthemum. The 

 plants described and figured in both these works are certainly referable, as 

 far as can be ascertained, to varieties of the small flowering Chrysanthemum 

 lndicum. 



* See Journal d'Histoire Naturclle, vol. ii.page 237. 



