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CHRYSANTHEMUM TRICOLOR.
Three-coloured Corn-Marygold.
C L A S S XIX. 'ORDER IL
SYNGENESIJ,P0LYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
G E N E R I C CHARACTEE.
CALYX. Communis hoemifphaericus, imbricatus ;
Iquarais arde incumbentibus; interioribus
per gradus majoribus, margine fcarioiis; intiQiis
terminatis fquama fcariola.
C O R O L L A . Compofita radiata. CorullulEe hermaphrodite
tiibulofae^ numerólas, iu dilcoj
femineae duodenis phires, in radio.
Propria hermaphroditis infundibuiiformis,
quinquefida, patuhi, longitudine caljcis.
Feminels ligulata, oblonga, tridentata.
STAMINA. Hermaphroditis filamenta quinqué,
capillaria, breviflima. Anthera cylindracea,
tubulola, corolla fere brevior.
PisTiLLUM. Hermaphroditis, germen ovatum.
Stylus filiformis, flaminibus longior. Stigmata
duo, revoluta.
Femhieh germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis,
cum hermaphroditis asqualis. Stigmata duo,
obtufa, revoluta.
P E E I C A K P I UM nullum. Calyx immutatus.
SEMINA. Hermaphroditis folitaria, oblonga.
Pappus nullus.
Femineis fimillima hermaphroditis.
R E C E P T A C U L UM nudum, puncftatum, convexum.
Chryfanthemum crithmi foliis; fquamis exterioribus
calycis carinatis; floribus folitariis,
tricolora tis.
EMPALEMENT. Common, hemifpherical, tiled;
fcales lying clofe upon each other; the inner
ones becoming gradually larger, ikinny
at tlie edge; the innermoft terminating in a
ikinny fubftance.
BLOSSOM. Compound radiate. Florets with
chives and pointals, of the centre, tubular
and numerous; thofe with only pointals, of
tlie ray, twelve or more. Indi-vicluah with chives and pointals, funnel
lhaped, five-cleft, open, the length
of the cup.
Indimluah with only pointals, ligulate, oblong,
with three teeth.
C H I V E S . Thofe with chives and pointals have
five, hair-like, very fliort threads. Tips cylindrical
and tubular, fcarcely lliorter
than the bloffom.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud, where there are chives and
pointals egg-ihaped. Shaft thread-lhaped,
longer than the chives. Summits two, rolled
back.
Seed-bud where- there are only pointals
egg-lliaped. Shaft thread-ihaped the length
of thofe where there are chives and pointals
Summits two, blunt and rolled back.
SEED-VESSEL none. Cup unchanged.
SEEDS of thofe with chives and pointals folitary,
oblong. Feather none.
Thofe where there are only pointals like
the others.
RECEPTACLE naked, dotted, and convex.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Corn-Marygokl with famphire-like leaves; the
outer fcales of the cup keel-lhaped; the
flowers grow folitary and are three-coloured.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. An outer Scale of the Empalement.
2. An inner Scale of the Empalement.
3- A female Floret of the Circumference, with its Pointal.
4. An hermaphrodite Floret of the Center.
5. The above, magnified.
6. The Chives of an hermaphrodite Floret, magnified.
7. The Pointal of an hermaphrodite Floret, magnified.
8. The Receptacle, natural fize.
MR. James Donn, Curator ot the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, through whofe medium we polTcfs thisnew
Ipecies of Cryfanthemum, informs us, in his catalogue for 1800, that it is a native of the coaft of
Barba^ry and from whence it was firft received in 1797. The C. Tricolor is but of annual growth,
ftould be raifed on gentle heat about March, and may be either kept in pots, or planted in t L open
borders, where it will flower from July till Oaober; but much of the brilliancy of the flowers will be
loit It treated m the laft manner, as the leaft wet, or even the dew, will affeft their colours. The
fteds are perfefted in lefs than a week, after the decay of the flower, and are produced in abundance.
Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hammerfmith nurfery, which had been raifed from feed,
communicated by Mr. Donn to Meifrs. Lee and Kennedy
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