white or sometimes wholly red; awarded second-class certifi¬ 
cate.” “ Chrysanthemum grandiflorum: this, which was thought 
by some members of the Committee to be the same as the 
Tasselled Yellow formerly cultivated, was remarkable for its 
very large flower-heads, some of which on the plants exhibited 
were fully five inches across. Mr. Fortune, by whom it was 
sent from Japan, states that it measures seven inches when well 
grown ; it was remarkably showy, the heads being loosely filled 
with long-pointed, strap-shaped florets of a brilliant yellow, 
rendering it a valuable decorative plant. It was awarded a 
second-class certificate. Chrysanthemum japonicmn (ibid .), a 
very curious and interesting, scarcely ornamental, variety of 
Chinese Chrysanthemum, exported from Japan. It had pecu¬ 
liarly-cut leaves, and the flower-heads, which were of a brown¬ 
ish-red tipped with yellow, were formed of slender, tubular, 
curved florets, and a good deal resembled those of the Cartha- 
mus, or Safflower, only somewhat larger. They were borne on 
longish slender stalks.” 
On referring to Mr. Fortune as to whether these different 
varieties ought to be considered as specifically distinct from the 
Chinese Chrysanthemum, he says:—“ 1 am inclined to think 
that they must all be referred to Chrysanthemum sinense; and 
even the one named, in the Horticultural Society’s Proceedings, 
C. japonicum, though apparently so different, must be referred, 
I believe, to the same group.” 
We have figured the second of these, C. striatum , which pro¬ 
mises, from the peculiarity of its marking, hitherto unknown 
amongst Chrysanthemums, to be the parent of something new. 
Owing to the large size of the flowers, we have been obliged 
to reduce it, and have found it impossible to place more than it 
on the Plate. 
