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PzONIA ANOMALA. JAGGED-LEAVED 
SIBERIAN Paony. 
MERE AE ETE EEE TEE TEE TE Ee IE 
Clafs and Order. 
PoLYANDRIA DiGyYNia. 
Generic Characer. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Styli o. Cap/. polyfperme, 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. 
PALONIA anomala ; foliis biternatis: foliolis multipartitis 
nudis: laciniis lanceolatis, capfulis depreffis glabris. Waid. 
Sp. Pl.2. p. 1222. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 316. Bot. 
Kepof. 514- é. 
P,ONIA anomala ; calyce foliofo, capfulis glabris depreffis. 
Linn, Mant. 247. : 
PAEONIA fru@tibus quinque glabris patentibus. Giel. Sibir. 
4. p. 184. t. 72. es 
PAEONIA Jaciniata ; foliis biternatis, foliolis acute laciniatis, 
~ germinibus glabris. Pall. Ko. 2. p. 93. t. 85. 
Pzonta anomala has for the moft part five capfules, which 
are not upright, but fpreading. The root, in its native foil, 
is faid to grow very large, dividing into tuberous branches a 
foot long, yellow on the outfide and white within, fmelling 
like Florentine Iris. There are two varieties, the one having 
flowers of a pale, the other of a more intenfe purple colour. 
Native of Siberia, confequently confidered as a hardy 
perennial. Yet we have frequently obferved, that it perifhes 
in the winter. This is probably owing to the wetnefs, not to 
the cold of our climate; though many plants which, in their 
native foil, are covered with fnow, are liable to injury from the 
latter caufe; partly, perhaps, from the want of this natural 
defence, and partly from beginning to vegetate too —_ 
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