Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Pl. 49.

Plate 50. Superb White Chrysanthemum. Early Crimson.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

CHRYSANTHEMUM indicum var.

Superb White Chrysanthemum.

Class and Order.—Syngensia, Polygamia, Superflua.

Syn. Superb White Chrysanthemum. Hort. Soc. Trans. Vol. 5. p. 420.

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Stem erect, leafy, branching—leaves bi-pinnatifid, lobes deeply indented,—flower terminal, drooping, white, tinged with yellow towards the centre—calyx squamose, obtuse, florets ligulate, outside florets occasionally quill'd—apex entire.