By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



short even at the centre of the flower, which is hollow, 

 showing the disc at the bottom. The florets are all ex- 

 panded, not quilled, their surfaces furrowed, the outer ones 

 are broader than those near the centre, their terminations are 

 nearly all entire ; the backs of the florets are neatly tinged 

 with pale purple, the fronts are white, but exhibit the purple 

 tinge through the substance of the florets, so as to give the 

 whole blossom, when in its most perfect state, a delicate blush 

 tinge. The leaves are an opaque green, rather elongated, 

 with short footstalks, their lobes scarcely imbricated, divided 

 by shallow indentures, and having their serratures bluntly 

 pointed. The blossoms under glass are superior to those 

 produced against a wall, but still the kind may be considered 

 as a good out-door variety. 



3. Parks s Small Yellow Chrysanthemum. Plants of this 

 kind were collected in China for the Society, by Mr. Parks 

 in 1823, one of them was brought to England for the Society 

 by Captain Nairne in the General Kyd, and another by 

 Mr. Parks himself, in the Lowther Castle, in 1824, in 

 which year the imported plants blossomed nearly as well 

 as they have done subsequently. From the general ap- 

 pearance and size of the flower, it may readily be mistaken 

 for the Small Yellow Chrysanthemum described* in a pre- 

 ceding paper, but the leaves are remarkably different ; besides, 

 the blossoms of this sort open earlier, they are not so fully 

 double, they are smaller, and the florets are without the 

 dark colour at their backs, noticed in the other sort. The 

 flowers are produced freely, and have a very neat appearance, 

 with a regular and even circumference. The florets are 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 415. 



