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PAONIA* albiflöra ; var. Póttsii. 
Potts's Chinese Peony. 
POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZ Juss. $ Peeoniacee De Cand. — (Intro- 
duction to the natural system of Botany, p. 6.) 
PJEONIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 42. 
GARDEN VARIETY. 
This splendid plant originated in China, from which 
country it was brought in 1822, to the Horticultural So- 
ciety, by the late Mr. John Potts, after whom Mr. Sabine, 
then Secretary to the Society, named it. 
It is by far the handsomest of the varieties of P. albi- 
flora, and, indeed, of the whole genus. At present it 1s 
extremely scarce; but it multiplies as freely as the other 
kinds, and will, no doubt, be soon more common. It 
flowers rather before P. albiflora fragrans and Humei, and 
later than P. albiflora Whitleii. si 
* Named after the physician Peeon, who is said to have employed the 
herb with success. Pliny's description is unusually intelligible, and leaves 
no doubt that the plant of the ancients is the same as that of the moderns. 
