By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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out of the cuticle, which M. Ramatuelle has described as 

 resembling dust. I could not discover any scent arising from 

 them. 



I avail myself of this opportunity to make some corrections 

 and additions to former descriptions, the defects of which 

 were caused by the imperfect state of the blossoms, or other 

 circumstances at the period when they were originally made. 



The Quilled Pink Chrysanthemum. In the descriptions * 

 of this variety hitherto published, it is represented as not 

 producing many flowers, a defect which, joined to its lateness, 

 has, notwithstanding the great beauty of its blossoms, caused 

 it to decline in estimation. The plant however which was 

 afterwards imported for the Society by Captain Mayne in 

 1820, and which has beenf hitherto considered as a duplicate 

 of that originally described, has subsequently been ascer- 

 tained to differ from it in being much more free in producing 

 blossoms ; it has therefore been substituted for the original 

 in the collection of the Society. In its leaves and the cha- 

 racter of its flowers there is no variation ; a slight difference 

 in the colour of its blossoms is perceptible, they are a shade 

 paler. 



The Semi-double Quilled Pink Chrysanthemum, has proved 

 a much more beautiful variety than it was originally de- 

 scribed % to be. The outside of the florets of the ray is a 

 rich purplish pink, which is much darker when the plant is 

 grown in the open air ; the inside of the florets is pure white, 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. page 350, and Vol. v. page 150. 

 f See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 159, and page 414. 

 \ See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. Plate xvii * 



