1. P. Moutan. Hort. Kew. 
2. P. corallina.. Retzius. 
3. P. officinalis. Pall. 
B P. lobata. DC. Prodr. No. 5. 
4. P. daurica. Anderson. 
5. P. tenuifolia. Linn. 
6. P. hybrida. DC. Prodr. No. 7. 
7. P. anomala. Linn. 
8. P. albiflora. Pall. 
9. P. Russi. DC. Prodr. No. 10. This we have not seen. 
10. P. humilis. Retz. Differs from P. arietina, chiefly in 
its smooth capsules. 
11. P. arietina. Anderson. 
B. P. cretica. Sabine. 
y. P. peregrina. Hort. Kew. 
ò P. paradoxa. Anderson. 
e P. decora. Anderson. 
12. P. mollis. Anderson. 
A hardy perennial plant, said to be a native of Candia, of 
easy cultivation. It is common in collections, and the 
earliest Peeony in blossom. Our drawing was taken at the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in April last. 
Stems 14 or 2 feet high, simple, erect, leafy, obtusely 
angular, quite smooth at base, a little pubescent towards 
the top. Leaves erect, biternate, flat, yellowish - green, 
opaque, above smooth rugose, beneath glaucous pubescent; 
common stalk rounded, pubescent at the base, channelled 
above, about four inches long; partial stalks pubescent, 
rounded, the lateral being shorter: lateral leaflets oblique, 
decurrent at base, those of the middle segment oval, of the 
lateral segments ovate-lanceolate ; intermediate leaflets oval- 
lanceolate, entire, or 2-lobed. Flowers erect, standing 
above the leaves, pale flesh-colour, changing to white. Pe- 
duncle rounded, striated, three inches long, pubescent at 
the end, having a little below the flower a lanceolate spread- 
ing half-folded-together bract. Calyx of 5 sepals, somewhat 
hairy; the outer small, ovate, leafy at end, spatulate ; the 
others rounded-ovate, shell-shaped, veiny, a little coloured, 
with a membranous coloured edge; the inner sepals much the 
largest. Petals delicate, crumpled. Ovaries 2, spreading, 
woolly ; stigma compressed, curled backwards, pink. t 
J. L, 
