By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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very much filled with florets ; a disc is sometimes apparent 

 in its middle. The florets are of various lengths, diminish- 

 ing, as they approach the centre, to extreme shortness, 

 those in the circumference being the longest ; they are 

 quilled, but most of them open into a spoon- shaped form, 

 about one forth of the length, those in the centre retain a 

 deeper and richer cast of orange than the marginal ones. 

 The leaves are very peculiar, they are small, and dark green, 

 having rather long foot-stalks with shallow indentures and 

 serratures deeply pointed. 



Small Yellow Chrysanthemum . Plants of this variety were 

 received by the Society in the end of the year 1821 (but did 

 not blossom in that season) from Robert Barclay, Esq. of 

 Bury Hill, and Henry Goodhall, Esq. as a new yellow 

 Chrysanthemum, but no account of its origin was communica- 

 ted by either of these gentlemen. From enquiries subsequently 

 made, and especially from the information of John Robinson 

 Payne, Esq. I have reason to think that it has existed for some 

 years ; having been five or more in his garden at Bromley 

 in Middlesex, to which place it was brought from another 

 private garden at Plaistow in Kent. As there are two other 

 kinds with flowers of the same colour, the Golden Yellow 

 and the Sulphur Yellow, for which it might have been taken 

 by inexperienced cultivators, there is less cause for surprise 

 that it should have remained so long unnoticed. The plant 

 does not grow tall ; the branches are compact, and rather 

 rigid, with short joints. The blossoms come out at the same 

 time nearly as the Rose or Buff; their scent is not strong, 

 though partaking of that of Chamomile ; their colour is en- 

 tirely pale yellow, rather paler than that of the sulphur yel- 



