C. sinense. Often designated the Chinese chrysan themum.

Varieties of this flower are numerous, but the following is as good a selection as can be made. Those to which an asterisk is prefixed, are most deserving of attention: -

Abelard, quilled pink.

Achmet Bey, dark purple.

Adventure, yellow.

Annie Jane, brownish red.

Annie Salter, pale yellow.

Aristides, orange and brown. *Beaute de Verseilles, yellow.

Beauty, pale lilac.

Belvidere, buff and rose.

Bertram, purplish rose.

Bethulia, large purple.

Bicolor, white and yellow.

Bijou, white, tipped with pink. *Campestroni, purple. *Celestial, blush.

Champion, lemon.

Chancellor, white and pink.

Changeable, yellow.

Columbus, rose.

Compactum, white.

Comte d'Eu, light red.

Conductor, orange.

Criterion, white.

David, yellow.

De Crequi, small rosy purple.

Defiance, white.

Demosthenes, yellow and brown. *Duc de Conigliano, crimson.

Duchess de Montebello, light rose.

Empress, lilac. * Exquisite, white.

Flechier, dark rose.

Florabundum, dark lilac. *Formosum, white and yellow.

General Laborde, lilac. *Goliath, white.

Gouvain St. Cyr, orange. *Grand Napoleon, purple.

Grandish, flesh colour.

Hardy, blush white.

Horace, purplish rose.

Horatio, fine rose.

Imogene, light buff.

Imperial, pale lilac. *Incomparable, large buff.

Invincible, creamy white.

Irene, fine yellow.

Isabella, white.

Isolier, rosy red.

Itobate, shaded rose.

Ivanhoe, brown. *King, pale rose.

Letitia Buonaparte, blush.

Lamarque, orange.

Leontine, brownish red.

Louis Philippe, purplish lilac. *Lucidum, white.

Madame Mina, buff. *Madame Pompadour, dark rose. *Magnet, yellow.

Malvina, purple.

Marechal Soult, yellow.

Marie, red.

Marie Antoinette, rose and buff.

Marquis, light rose.

Memnon, creamy white. *Minerva, pink and white.

Mirabile, white and buff. *Ne Plus Ultra, white.

Old Purple.

Orion, creamy white.

Perfection, pale lilac. *Phidias, rosy red.

Phyllis, lemon.

Prince Albert, amaranth.

Princess de Lamalle, rosy lilac. *Princess Mario, light pink. *Queen, rose.

Queen Victoria, lilac.

Queen of Gipsies, orange.

Queen of Yellows.

Reine de Prusse, rose.

Rosetta, quilled pink.

Saladin, orange purple.

Sanguineum, red.

Sappho, reddish brown.

Small, brown.

Solon, yellow.

Surprise, white.

Tasselled Fellow.

Tedjini, yellowish brown.

Timon, yellow. *Theresia, red.

Triumphant, pink and buff.

Two-coloured Incurved, yellow and brown.

Venusta, amaranth. *Vesta, white.

Victorine, light rose. *Victory, white.

Zelinda, rosy blush.