By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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middle and at the end of December, and until the severe 

 frost which occurred in January. From the experience of its 

 cultivation in the Garden of the Society, it seems to succeed 

 best in the open air ; those plants which have been grown 

 in pots and not under glass, having produced weak and in- 

 ferior flowers. Its blossoms have some peculiarities, not 

 mentioned in the former account, which deserve attention. 

 The disc is large, flat, and when the flower is expanded ap- 

 pears green, in consequence of the tubular florets not being 

 open ; the florets of the ray spread out quite horizontally, and 

 form a large flat flower with an irregular circumference ; the 

 quilled part of the florets in a good flower is shorter than 

 has been before stated, they are also white at their base, 

 which being seen in the front, gives the appearance of a 

 white circle round the disc. The florets are very unequal 

 in length, the expanded parts are broad, furrowed, slightly 

 recurved, and are an uniform pale purple. Many of the 

 florets of the ray, especially those near the centre, produce 

 form the inside of their tubes one, two, or more short 

 petal-like filaments of the same colour as the expanded 

 part of the floret; these originate from towards the base 

 of the floret, and are evidently an effort of the flowers to 

 become double. I have not observed this circumstance 

 in any other Chrysanthemum ; it appears however to have 

 been noticed in China, for in the original drawing of this 

 kind which is in the collection of the Society, these filamen- 

 tous additions to the florets were represented. 



Among the new plants described in the present Paper, 

 two cases* of sporting are recorded as having caused the 



* The Pale Pink and the Clustered Pink Chrysanthemi 



