350 Account of New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums. 



tubular florets are produced in the disc ; the plants which 

 are without these are riot entirely destitute of the scent, but 

 have it in a less degree. The Quilled White is the only vari- 

 ety of Chrysanthemum Sinense which has an odour differing 

 from the others ; that has been justly assimilated to the smell 

 of new honey-comb. The Quilled Pink has been supposed* 

 to possess a similar scent ; it has it however very slightly, and 

 that only occasionally. The odour of a large collection 

 of Chinese Chrysanthemums when in a house, is far from 

 unpleasant, though it cannot be called fragrant. The scent 

 of the varieties of the Chrysanthemum Indicum is very diffe- 

 rent from that of Chamomile ; it is slightly pungent, and 

 somewhat aromatic. 



In some of the varieties of Chinese Chrysanthemums, in the 

 present season, especially on the blossoms of the darker 

 flowering kinds, I observed an appearance which I suppose 

 is that described by M. Ramatuelle,-)- as a small sweet- 

 scented dust, sprinkled on the ligulate florets of the blossoms 

 of the Old Purple Chrysanthemum. This was only however 

 observed at Marseilles, and not at Paris. It may have been 

 always more or less visible on the blossoms in this country, 

 though hitherto unnoticed, but the production of it this year 

 more conspicuously, may have been caused by the superior 

 heat and dryness of the summer, which infused into the plants 

 a greater vigour than usual. Very minute shining oblong 

 bodies are produced irregularly on the surfaces of the florets, 

 having the appearance of solid transparent exudations growing 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 150. 



t See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 336, and Journal d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Vol. ii. page 237. 



