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Chrysanthemum from the collection at Kew for exhibition at the 

 Congress, and in doing this I saw that this supposed variety was 

 much more like the large Chinese cultivated Chrysanthemum 

 than is the slender plant from the North of China and Japan. 

 Without careful comparison the slender specimens from North 

 China and Japan might be regarded as a different species from 

 Dr. Henry's plant, but I am of the opinion that they represent a 

 slender northern variety of the same species. The Chinese spe- 

 cimens I have seen are all glabrous, or nearly so, whereas the 

 Japanese specimens have thicker more or less tomentose leaves 

 and outer involucral bracts. 



I append a copy of the synonymy and bibliography of the two 

 species, as prepared for the Gardeners' Chronicle, from which I 

 have omitted references to many of the old writers, who merely 

 copied from others and added nothing that was new. 



1. Chrysanthemum indicum, Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 

 ed. i. (1753), p. 889, excl. syn. ; Sabine in Transactions 

 of the Horticultural Society of London, iv. (1821), p. 326, 

 tt. 12 et 13, et in Transactions of the Linnean Society, 

 xiv. (1823), p. 144; Lindley in Botanical Kegister (1829), 

 t. 1287; Roxburgh Flora Indica (1832), hi. p. 436, 

 Clarke's Reprint, p. 604 ; Bretsclmeider, Early European 

 Researches into the Flora of China (1881), p. 158 ; 

 Hemsley in Journal of the Linnean Society, xxiii. (1888), 

 p. 437. 



Matricaria japonicaflorc minor e, Breyne, Prodromus fasciculi 

 rariorum plantarum secundus, exhibens catalogum plan- 

 tarum rariorum anno 1688inhortis celeberrimis Hollandiae 

 observatarum, p. 66. 



Tsjetti-jni, Rheede, Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, x. (1690), 

 p. 87, t. 44. 



Matricaria madraspatana, Petiver, Musei, Petiveriani (1695), 



centuria viii. p. 76, saltern pro parte. 

 Chrysanthemum maderaspatanum, &c. Plukenet," Almages- 



tum Botanicum (1696), p. 101, t. 160, fig. 6. 

 Matricaria Chusan, &c, Petiver in Philosophical Transactions 



of the Royal Society of London, xxiii. (1703), p. 1421 ; 



Bretschneider, Early European Researches into the Flora 



of China (1881), pp. 56 et 158. 



