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1888. Forbes and Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 437, 

 and p. 438-9, Synonymy and Distribution in a Wild 

 State. 



1889. Hemsley, W. Botting, Gardeners' Chronicle, third series, 

 vol. vi. History, amended Synonymy, and Distribution. 

 The Synonymy is repeated in this volume, ante, p. 111. 



Discussion. 



Mr. W. B. Hemsley drew attention to a selection of dried 

 specimens of wild and cultivated Chrysanthemums from the Kew 

 Herbarium, exhibited by the Director of the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, and observed that Mr. Burbidge had said that all the races 

 of cultivated Chrysanthemums had descended from one wild 

 species, namely, C. indicum. The botanical idea of species was 

 somewhat different from that of horticulturists, but botanists 

 endeavoured to make useful limits. He was not prepared to say 

 that Mr. Burbidge was wrong in his opinion, but would point out 

 the characteristics of the wild forms believed to be concerned in 

 the parentage of the cultivated races. Chrysanthemum indicum 

 in the wild state was usually a plant of moderate stature, with 

 relatively thin, much cut leaves, and numerous small wholly 

 yellow flower-heads. It ranged from Peking to Hong Kong, and 

 in the southern part of the area the flower-heads were larger and 

 less numerous. Possibly some of these specimens might have 

 been cultivated, hence their greater luxuriance. Double-flowered 

 G. indicum was cultivated throughout India, as well as in China, 

 and was, he believed, invariably yellow. 



Mr. Maximowicz, who had travelled widely in China and 

 Japan, was of opinion that the cultivated Chrysanthemums had 

 descended, variously blended, from two distinct wild species, 

 namely, C. indicum, and another from North China and Japan, 

 which he (Maximowicz) regarded as C. sinense {morifolium). 

 This was a very slender plant, with small, almost or quite 

 glabrous leaves and moderate-sized rlovv^ "-heads, with a yellow 

 disc and bright rose-coloured ray. Mr. Hemsley, however, did 

 not consider it probable that this form, which he had named 

 C. morifolium, var. gracile, had been directly concerned in the 

 parentage of cultivated Chrysanthemums, and pointed out 

 specimens of a very different plant, recently collected in Central 

 China by Dr. A. Henry. This was a very robust plant, with 



