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inch in length, flattened, and quilled their whole length, 

 with a small jagged or notched opening at their extremities ; 

 they rise from all parts of the receptacle, but are sometimes 

 more numerous in the circumference than in the centre; 

 there are no tubular florets, but the receptacle is thickly 

 studded with dark-edged green paleae, longer than those 

 appendages generally are in other varieties, and from amongst 

 them the quilled florets arise. The leaves are narrow with 

 broad intervals between the lobes, the terminating lobes 

 being longer than usual, the serratures of the lobes are deep 

 and obtuse, with a terminating point. 



19. Yellow Waratah Chrysanthemum. This was one of 

 Mr. Parks's own importation in 1824. The original plant 

 produced a single blossom very late in that year. No flower 

 however appeared on the plants either in the house or against 

 the wall in the past season, from which circumstance it may 

 be inferred that it will not be a kind on which much depend- 

 ance for ornament can be placed. The whole appearance of 

 the plant, in its general habit, the nature of its flowers, as well 

 as in the shape and character of the foliage, is so different 

 from that of Chinese Chrysanthemums generally, as to in- 

 duce a belief that it has probably originated from, and may 

 be referred to some distinct species. A short note of the 

 blossom seen last year having been preserved, enables me to 

 give the following description of it. The whole of the 

 flower both ray and disc was yellow, the florets of the ray 

 were in single series in the circumference only, they were 

 narrow and pointed, and being of different lengths, gave the 

 flower a starry appearance; the florets of the disc though 

 tubular were lengthened, and considerably elevated, their 



