in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. P. corallina, 
Retz, its nearest ally, differs in having glaucous-green, 
never purple, leaves, and hairy carpels. 
Descr.—A herbaceous perennial, usually about a foot and 
a half high. Stems glabrous, erect, flexuose, simple, one- 
flowered. eaves ternately pinnatisect; segments ovate- 
lanceolate or oblong, acute, entire, glabrous, deep-green 
above, purple below; nerves distinct on both sides, im- 
pressed above, slightly elevated below. Flowers deep rose- 
pink, solitary, erect, usually about three and a half inches 
in diameter. Sepals unequal, green. Petals five to ten, 
broadly obovate, membranous, crenulate. Stamens nume- 
rous ; filaments purple; anthers yellow. Carpels five to 
seven, erect, at length divergent, glabrous, purple, shining ;— 
stigma recurved.—J. HuTcHinson. 
Cultiv.—As a garden plant P. Cambessedesii has the 
same claims as P. officinalis, P. peregrina, P. corallina and 
the other species of the herbaceous section which are now 
represented in gardens by a host of hybrid and seedling 
forms. For its cultivation the treatment that answers for 
these, a rich deep soil and a fair amount of moisture, will be 
found suitable. It is perhaps not generally understood that 
herbaceous Paeonies will grow almost as well under the 
partial shade of trees as they do in the open, exposed to full 
sunshine. They are therefore serviceable for grouping 
along with hardy ferns and the like—W. Warson. 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 8, young carpel; 4, ripe fruit:—1-8, enlarged ; 
4, natural size. eo eee e 
