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low. The florets are all short, nearly of equal length, and 

 form a globular head, like those of the Rose or Buff, to which, 

 as regards its blossoms, except in colour, it has a strong 

 resemblance, not only in shape but character. The flowers 

 grow upright, and several are produced on the ends of each 

 shoot; their expansion is small, not exceeding two inches; the 

 florets are broadly ligulate, without tubes, contracted at their 

 tips, which are marked with fine serratures. The leaves are 

 dark green with deep indentures, not overlapping, the serra- 

 tures round, and obtusely pointed. A comparison of the 

 above description, with the characters of the Rose and Buff 

 Chrysanthemums * will justify me in the conclusion that this 

 kind is a permanent sport from the latter of the two vari- 

 eties, which in certain situations, and especially in bad sea- 

 sons, loses most of the reddish colour which belongs to it 

 when perfect, and puts on a dingy yellow hue. The colour 

 of the Small Yellow Chrysanthemum is, however, very bright, 

 and I have not myself observed in it any disposition to return 

 back to its supposed type, or to run away in any particular 

 from its character. 



In my first notice+ of the Rose and Buff Chrysanthemums, 

 it was supposed that these varieties mutually sported into 

 each other, but I now believe that is not the case, and that the 

 Buff is alone the sporting plant, frequently throwing out 

 a branch bearing Rose flowers. It is necessary to observe, 

 that in cultivating the sporting varieties, the return of the 

 sport is not always to be depended on, for it frequently hap- 

 pens, that a root which sports in one season, will in the next 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. pages 344, 345, and 340. 

 f Ibid. Vol. iv. pages 344, 345, and 346. 



