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out rather before those of the Purple ; their scent is pleasant, 

 though slightly touched with that of Chamomile ; their co- 

 lour is purplish flesh, or rose. The florets being nearly of 

 equal lengths, and the inner ones projecting, they form a 

 globular though not very compact flower, without the least 

 appearance of disc; the flowers stand upright; their ex- 

 pansion, measuring at the back, being less than two inches; 

 the younger and inferior flowers are flatter than the principal 

 ones ; there is often a variation in the appearance of the 

 centre of the flower, from the inner florets being much paler 

 than the outer ; the florets are short, broadly ligulate, and 

 without tubes, rather paler behind, though not much so, 

 having their margins a little distinguished by white. The 

 leaves are large and broad, deeply indented, the sides of the 

 lobes being remote, and the serratures sharp pointed. This 

 and the following were introduced for Sir Abraham Hume 

 in October, 1798, in the Mope Indiaman, by Captain Pen- 

 dergast, the same gentleman whose exertions 1 have before 

 recorded ; they were the first increase to our stock after the 

 Purple. Both these sorts appear to grow better in the open 

 air than the others, for they are much more abundant in all 

 the small gardens in the vicinity of London. The plants of 

 this variety occasionally sport and produce a few flowers of 

 the next sort, from which circumstance it has been supposed 

 that they are the same plant, and (since some plants of the 

 other sport into this) convertible into each other; but I am 

 assured by Mr. James Mean, Sir Abraham Hume's gar- 

 dener, that the original plants of both kinds which came 

 from China do not sport, but still continue distinct. It is 

 the variety f, or Lilac- coloured, of the second edition of the 



