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47 
There were many other beautifully coloured variations and some of 
distinct habit, but not sufficiently perfect for description. 
Chrysanthemum carinatum, Syn; O. tricolor. (Carter & Co.)— 
A good old-fashioned showy annual for large flower-borders and the 
front part of shrubberies. It has bipinnatifid leaves with distant 
spreading narrow acute segments; the involucral scales are keeled; 
the ray florets are white, marked with yellow at the base, the disk 
being dark brown. C. carinaturn flavum, sent as “ C. tricolor yellow,” 
is the same in all respects, except that the ray florets are entirely 
yellow. These species were grown for comparison with some handsome 
modern varieties noticed below. 
Chrysanthemum carinaturn Burridgeanum. Syn: C. tricolor 
Burridgeanum (Vilmorin) ; C. tricolor, Burridges (Carter & Co.).— 
This proved a very handsome variety when in its best or true state ; 
but it was open to the same objection as the next, being wanting in 
fixity of character. When perfect, the ray florets were white, with a 
zone of yellow forming a circle around the dark-coloured disk, and next 
to this on the outer side was a zone of purplish-crimson, forming a 
second circle exterior to the yellow. It was the most beautiful of the 
several forms of this showy species, and deserving of every effort to 
render it permanent by careful selection of the seed-bearing plants. 
Chrysanthemum carinaturn venustum. Syn: C. tricolor venustum 
(Thompson) ; C. tricolor. Beautiful (Carter & Co.).—The true plants 
of this variety were of a very pleasing character, but the greater part 
were sportive and not sufficiently distinct or decided in colour. Ihe 
ray florets were yellow at the base, forming a ring around the disk, and 
in the best forms, rosy-purple in the upper part; or they were whitish, 
more or less stained with rosy-purple: these latter having an indistinct 
appearance. If the deeper-coloured forms produced more or less freely 
in every batch of plants can be perpetuated and fixed, this will form a 
very showy border flower. 
Chrysanthemum coronarium albo-fiavum. Syn: Chrysanthemum 
white and yellow. (Carter and Co.)—This resembled the following in 
habit, but the florets were flatter and less quilled, and in some plants 
were wholly yellow, in other yellow below and creamy-white at the tips. 
Chrysanthemum coronarium albo~plenum. Syn : Chrysanthemum 
ichite double-quilled. (Carter and Co.)—This and the preceding, being 
free-flowering, strong-growing annuals, were determined to be useful 
for the ornamentation of large shrubbery borders. They were tall- 
growing plants, of densely branched habit, and distinguished from the 
former series (C. carinaturn) by having smaller and more closely-lobed 
tripinnatifid leaves, the lobes of which were spathulate; and also by 
having smaller flower heads, 1| inch in diameter, of which the involu¬ 
cral scales were not keeled. The ray florets were incurved at the 
edges so as to be more or less quilled or tubulose, yellow at the base, 
paler and creamy-white at the tips, multiplied so as to form a semi¬ 
double “ flower,” the disk deep orange-yellow. 
Clarkia pulchella integripetala. 
C Turner 
^ Vilmor 
This variety proved 
to be a fine and 
showy plant when true, but seems scarcely to have become fixed in 
