340 Account of the Varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums 



their white is of peculiar delicacy, but a little tinge of pink 

 is sometimes, though rarely, observable in some of the ex- 

 ternal florets. The general form of the flower at first is 

 widely bell-shaped, the external florets projecting and ex- 

 panding, their ends being recurved ; the centre florets are 

 curled inwards, and no disc is perceptible ; sometimes the 

 middle of the flowers appear tinged with greenish yellow, 

 which is caused by that colour being at the base of the 

 florets ; from the unequal length of the florets, the flower is 

 rather irregular in its expansion ; the flowers are pendulous 

 when fully blown, and the florets being long and weak in 

 texture, hang loose, and give the whole an appearance of a 

 tassel composed of white shreds ; this is its best and hand- 

 somest state, and unless the blossom has been good it does 

 not become thus pendulous, but remains expanded flat, and 

 when in that state has been supposed to be a distinct variety, 

 and been called the Expanded White. The external florets 

 are long and tubular, the internal ones are shorter, and have 

 tubes only a very short part of the length ; the lip is well 

 expanded, and having its edges as well as its end recurved, 

 is exactly the reverse in appearance of that of the florets of 

 the Superb White. The leaves are rather large, and of a 

 very deep green ; the indentations of the lobes are very 

 shallow, and the smaller divisions are blunt, with obscurely 

 pointed terminations. This plant was imported by Captain 

 Richard Rawes, in the Warren Hastings, in May 1816, 

 and by him given to his relation, Thomas Palmer, Esq. of 

 Bromley ; it first flowered in 1818, when I saw it in perfec- 

 tion in Mr. Lee's garden at Hammersmith ; Mr. Lee ob- 

 tained the stock of it from Mr. Palmer. 



