NAT. ORDER. 
Composite. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM INDICUM. INDIAN CHRYSANTHEMUM 
Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order I. Polygamia, Superflua. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, hemispherical, imbricated. • Scales, marginal, 
membranaceous. Pappus, margined. Receptacle, naked. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, stem-clasping, oblong ; the upper serrate, the 
lower toothed. 
The root is long, crooked, knotty, tough, externally of a dark 
brown, and internally of a light cream color ; the stem rises from 
two to three feet in height, somewhat woody, much branched, be- 
set with numerous leaves, bearing some resemblance to those of 
Mugwort, of a grayish color ; the jlowers are sweet smelling, and, 
on being pressed, give forth a very agreeable fragrance ; they are 
produced on the summits of the branches, in a loose sort of clus- 
ter, (those which terminate the main stem, grow to the size of a 
large carnation pink,) of a dark purple color; they are double, 
or rather between semi-double and double ; the Jlorets of the ra- 
dius at first are perfectly tubular, or quilled, but, as they advance, 
split gradually downward on the inside, their outside being of a 
grayish tint, invisible in most of the florets, especially the younger 
ones, as it gives them a particolored appearance ; these florets do 
not in full occupy the receptacle, leaving room for others in the 
centre, of a different form, and yellow color, which on examina- 
tion appear to have their parts perfect, and also those of the ra- 
dius ; the receptacle is beset with membranous paleas, or chaffy 
scales, a circumstance which would lead us to consider this plant 
rather as an Anthemis, than a Chrysanthemum, of which it has 
the calyx, with the foliage of Mugwort. 
