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small, sometimes expand more or less in the form of a spoon. 

 The disc of the chief or centre flower of each branch is about 

 three quarters of an inch wide, semi-globose, and made up of 

 small yellow florets ; the secondary flowers have a much 

 smaller disc. The leaves are a shining green, very different 

 in character from all others ; they are deeply divided at the 

 bottom, but less so at the top ; the larger divisions of each 

 leaf are distinct, and much lengthened, with fewer serratures 

 than in any other known variety, these are quite sharp, and 

 not in the least rounded. 



8. Semi-double Quilled White Chrysanthemum. This is a 

 large flower, but does not possess much to recommend it, 

 excepting that it is very different from all the others. The 

 flowers have the appearance of a very large Ox-eye Daisy* 

 The stem grows strong and high, and has an inclination to 

 form branches which bear flowers the whole of their length, 

 and not towards the top only. Tt blossoms at the same time 

 as the Superb White. The scent of the flower from whence 

 this description was taken was not so strong as either of the two 

 preceding, but this might have arisen from the plant growing 

 in the border. The expansion of the flower is nearly five 

 inches, the florets of the ray are pure white, and are ranged in 

 a double series, being two inches and more long, and nearly 

 all of the same length ; they are quilled from half to two- 

 thirds of their length, the lip is flattened, slightly inclining to 

 be spoon-shaped ; the direction of the opening is singular, it 

 faces different ways in different florets, in some towards the 

 back, in some sideways, and in others, though less frequently, 

 to the front of the flower. The disc is very large, conspi- 

 * Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Eng. Bot page 601. 



