Chrysanthemum ornatum

Chrysanthemum ornatum, Hemsl. (C. marginatum, Hort.). Allied to the above two species, and perhaps a form of C. morifolium: bushy plant, 3-4 ft.: lvs. palmately lobed, ovate in outline, white-tomentose beneath and on the margin, l½-2 in. long: fl.-heads loosely corymbose, 2 in. or less across, the disk yellow and rays white and broad; bracts of involucre in about 3 series, all similar, white in center, purple-brown on margin: achenes small, oblique, glabrous. B.M. 7965. G.C. III. 35:51. Gn. 71, p. 53; 73, p. 90.—A recent introduction; grows well in the open in England, but does not bloom unless taken indoors. ^CH

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