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ance, attract much notice in a collection. The plant grows to 

 a moderate length with strong branches and very short joints, 

 bearing many flowers in a thick and somewhat lengthened 

 cluster. In its early state the blossoms have a series of straight 

 and quilled florets in the circumference, with a considerable 

 disc, the middle part of which appears green, until the flower 

 has advanced. In its perfect state the expansion is about 

 three inches and an half, the florets in the circumference 

 being straight in the lower parts, and a little inclined forwards 

 at the ends ; the disc is large, convex, and fully exposed. 

 The blossoms are in perfection in the second season. The 

 florets of the ray are sometimes two inches long, they vary in 

 length, but not considerably ; they are pale at the base, and a 

 rich purplish pink upwards ; those near the centre are paler 

 and sometimes nearly white ; the whole might probably be- 

 come more so when grown abroad. The florets are quilled, 

 angular, flattened, and furrowed, with a small opening at the 

 top, which is rather hollow than spoon-shaped. It is the 

 peculiar form of the florets, that constitutes the singularity of 

 the character of the flowers. The leaves are broadish, dark 

 green, much recumbent on their footstalks, and not regularly 

 divided into five lobes as usual, but variously cut into shallow 

 indentures, and the lobes thus formed have very shallow 

 serratures, which are rounded and pointed at their termina- 

 tions. No trial has been made of this plant in the open air. 



13. Semi-double Quilled Pale Orange Chrysanthemum. 

 Two plants of this were imported in 1824, one by Captain 

 Nairne in the General Kydj the other by Mr. Parks in the 

 Lowther Castle. It was called in the original list prepared 

 by Mr. Parks, Semi-double Deep Yellow, but the general 



