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coloured and spuriously quilled flowers, of more upright appearance than the large, 
expanded, flat-petaled, and variegated purple- whitish and yellow-buffy ones, so 
charmingly depicted in the figure cited. They are of the middle season. 
30. Starry Changeable Purple , the Starry Purple, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 339. 
This beautiful plant is one of the most variable-flowered in the genus; its very late 
flowers first opening of a purple colour, with the exterior petals at first few in 
number, starry, and paler, especially at their spoon-shaped tips; soon, however, 
becoming still more pale, until the whole well-expanded and very double blossom 
becomes regularly more blush-coloured and white than purple, and is a very fine, 
well- formed, variegated flower. The stature of the plant is of a middle size, but its 
remarkable leaves are much more laciniated than usual, and often broader in their 
outline than long, which is not the case with any other in the group, and of very con- 
siderable size : wherefore I conceive it may be a distinct species from all the others. 
31. The Late Purple , the Late Pale Purple, Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 431, and 
vol. v. p. 422, and vol. vi., p. 353. Also called Large Pale Purple. This is a very 
late flowering, and rather tall variety, whose middling-sized and well-expanded 
blossoms are very neat, and resemble in shape those of the preceding, but are much 
smaller. 
32. The Brown Purple , Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 341, 342. A tall and slender 
twigged very late-flowering variety, whose middle-sized flowers resemble the last 
in shape, but are not quite so flat and neat in expansion, and their colour in the 
group is very remarkable, being of a very dull brownish or reddish purple. The 
leaves are so small, and so bluntly lobed, and on such slender shoots, terminating 
in such long and graceful peduncles, that the plant is probably a distinct species 
from Chrysanthemum Sinense, and differs not so much in leaf as in flower from 
our No. 6. the Small deep Yellow, above. 
TASSEL-FLOWERED, BEING TALL OR VERY TALL PLANTS IN THEIR GENUS, WITH 
VERY LARGE DOUBLE, AND MORE OR LESS CONSPICUOUSLY DROOPING FLOWERS 
WHOSE PETALS ARE USUALLY ELONGATED AND QUILLED, AND OFTEN GREATLY 
RESEMBLE THE FORM OF A TASSEL. 
33. Tasseled Flame Yellow, the Quilled Flame Yellow, Hort. Trans, vol. iv., 
tab. 14, p. 349, and vol. v., p. 421. The magnificent flowers of this tall plant appear 
rather late, and often measure above five inches in expansion; and make, perhaps, if 
not a more neat, at least a more showy appearance than any other of the group, being 
double, and composed of innumerable chiefly quilled incurving petals, hanging more 
or less downwards, and when at their best resembling a flame-coloured tassel. 
34. The Tasseled Salmon, the Quilled Salmon, Hort. Trans, vol. v., tab. 17*-, 
(inferior figure), p. 414, and 422. This is a late-flowering slender and graceful 
plant, with large tassel-like and half-expanded, drooping, quilled, salmon-coloured 
flowers, and is very common. 
35. The Tasseled Yellow, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 329. A very tall and strong- 
growing large-leaved variety, with numerous tassel-formed flowers of the largest 
