cultivated in England. By Joseph Sabine, Esq, 347 



brilliant might be taken for a dull scarlet ; if the flower is 

 weak, or the blossoms in decay or late, the centre of the 

 flower is lighter, or even quite yellow ; the florets laying com- 

 pact and imbricate, and being short, the flowers appear flat- 

 ter than those of either the Rose or the Buff ; the expansion 

 of the flower is from one to two inches, being smallest of the 

 whole tribe yet known ; the florets are not at all tubular, they 

 are rather pale at the back, but this is not perceptible, be- 

 cause the flower growing fully upright, and the florets being 

 flat, only present one surface to view. The leaves are large for 

 the plant, with indentures not very deep, the lobes not stand- 

 ing separate, but over-lapping each other, the smaller divi- 

 sions are blunt and pointed. It was introduced for Sir Abra- 

 ham Hume, in September, J 806, by Captain Pexdergast 

 in the Hope, of which ship he then had the command. It is 

 the variety 9, or Brown, of the second edition of the Hortus 

 Keweiisis, and the variety x, Fulva or Brown, of Sweet's 

 Hortus Suburbanus. 



The above are the twelve varieties which I mentioned at 

 the commencement of this Paper, and I have been thus par- 

 ticular in my descriptions of them, because a mistaken opi- 

 nion is entertained, and that even by some good gardeners, 

 that they all sport and change into each other. The shape 

 of their leaves, if attended to, will shew the impossibility of 

 such a circumstance, for, excepting those of the Purple and 

 the Changeable White, which are alike, and those of the Rose 

 and the Buff, which are also similar, the leaves of the rest 

 differ from each other, and from these likewise. It is true, 

 that the Purple sometimes shews a white flower, but so rarely 

 that I have seen very few instances of it : the Rose also occa- 



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