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PYRETHRUM roseum. 
— Pink Pyrethrum. 
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SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. Comrosir%. 
PYRETHRUM. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 272. 
P. rosewm; foliis pinnatis glabris: pinnis bipinnatifidis pinnatifidisque, 
lacinulis acutis divergentibus ; caulibus erectis unifloris, calycibus glabris : 
squamis margine sphacelatis.  Beb. taur. cauc. 2, 324.—-Spreng. 
syst. 3. 587. 
Chrysanthemum coccineum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2144, sec. Bieb. 
Chrysanthemum roseum. Adam in Weber et Mohr. catal, 1. p. 70. sec. 
Bieb. ; 
Caules é radice perenni nonnulli, pedales, seu sesquipedales, striati, sim- 
plices, erecti. Folia composita, petiolata, facie Carui: pinnis ctrcumscrip- 
tione latiuscults, foliorum inferiorum profunde bipinnatifidis: lacinulis brevibus, 
acutis, divergentibus. Flos terminalis, solitarius, magnitudine Chrysanthemt 
leucanthemi: pedunculo nudo, sulcato, sub flore parum incrassato et subvil- 
loso. Calyx glabriusculus: squamis margine apiceque scariosis, nigris, 
subciliatis. Radius eleganter roseus, nec coccineus ; discus luteus. Pappus 
margo angustus sublobatus. Bieb. 1. c. 
A handsome, hardy perennial, of which our drawing was 
made in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it 
had been raised from seeds received from Mr. Otto. A 
native of the Alpine regions of the Iberian and Eastern 
range of the Caucasus, flowering during the whole of the 
summer. In our gardens it is in perfection in May and 
June. . 
We are glad of an opportunity of figuring this species, 
for the sake of contrasting it with the nearly allied P. car- 
neum, which has already been published in the Botanical 
Magazine, under the name of Chrysanthemum coccineum. 
From the latter it is distinguished by its larger flowers, 
