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ductive of blossoms. The plants appear inclined to grow- 

 to a moderate height. The flowers are produced < in thick 

 clusters at the end of the bunches, so thick that the florets 

 of the different blossoms intermix. The expansion of the 

 flower, is full five inches, with an irregular circumference. 

 The florets are all quilled ; they project slightly forwards, 

 and are of an uniform lilac ; they are slender and long, 

 increasing in size upwards, and opening with a small spoon- 

 shaped mouth, much broken at the end ; those florets next 

 the circumference a~re straight ; in the inner part of the flower, 

 half way from the circumference, the ends of the florets 

 are at first incurved, afterwards straight ; the whole are of 

 various lengths, the longest being in the circumference, and 

 gradually but not evenly diminishing in length towards the 

 centre, where they are short. The leaves are bright green, 

 of moderate size, with shallow indentures, the lobes axe im- 

 bricating and very bluntly serrated ; the serratures are nearly 

 rounded, with obsolete points. It has not yet been placed 

 abroad against a wall, but may be considered as likely to suc- 

 ceed in that situation. 



9. Two-coloured Red Chrysanthemum. This plant came 

 from China in the General Kyd, under the care of Captain 

 Nairne, in 1824, and was also in Mr. Parks's own col- 

 lection. It is remarkably different from any other variety, 

 and is called in China the Golden-backed Red; in that 

 country the backs of the florets are so yellow as to justify 

 the name, but this remarkable character is not preserved by 

 the blossoms in this climate, for though the imperfect flowers 

 produced on the original plant in 1824 gave expectation of 

 it, yet in the past season the posterior colour, though distinct, 



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