PAONIA Wittmanniana. 
The Yellow Peony. 
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POLYANDRIA DI PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEA. $ HELLEBOREE. (Crowroors, Vege- 
table Kingdom, p. 425. ined.) 
PONIA. Linn. 
P. Wittmanniana ; herbacea, foliis triternatis, foliolis integerrimis ovatis 
rugosis subtus pubescentibus ceesiis, petalis ovatis luteis, carpellis 
erectis tomentosis apice recurvis. 
P. Wittmanniana. Hartwiss in litteris. 
A more remarkable acquisition than a yellow Peony, not 
a pale straw-coloured species, which is only a spoiled white, 
but a true yellow flowered plant, does not often occur. And 
therefore we should have expected that it would have been put 
on record by the first Botanist who saw it. Nevertheless we 
are unable to find a description of any such plant in the latest 
Botanical works. It is not mentioned in the very recent com- 
pilation by Walpers, just published ; nor do we find it in the 
last Index of the St. Petersburgh Garden, a place so rich in 
hardy plants. 
All that we know for certain of its history is, that it was 
received in October, 1842, in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, from Mr. N. de Hartwiss, the Director of the 
Nikita Garden in the Crimea; that it is just mentioned in 
the London Journal of Botany for April, 1812, p. 207, by 
Dr. Fischer, of St. Petersburgh, who, in a letter to Sir 
William Hooker, makes the following statement: 
** Mr. Hartwiss has received many interesting plants from 
Abcharia, sent by Count M. Worontzoff. Among them he 
has found a yellow flowered Peony, Epimedium pinnatum 
(confined hitherto to Talysch alone), and Pinus Nordman- 
niana, (an Abies), said to be a showy and beautiful tree." 
