charaéters, vary in colour, and in number from three to four. ~ 
In our plant, which had eight petals, both germens and ftigmas 
were quite white. Another variety, fent at the fame time, under 
the name of /afarica, had {maller flowers, calycine leaflets more 
fimple, and leaves lefs confluent, the four germens and ftigmas 
red. Ina third fpecimen, communicated by our friend, Joun 
Warxer, Ef. the flowers were larger; petals twelve, jagged 
at the edge ; germens three, greenifh red ; ftigmas flefh-coloured ; 
branches coloured at the point only. The double forts, of 
which there are white, flefh-coloured, and bright red_ varieties, 
all {weet-fcented, are much larger plants, and we are not certain 
that they are really of the fame fpecies. 
Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by 
Mefirs. CuanpLeR and Buckxincuam, Nurferymen, at 
Vauxhall. Native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical. Flowers 
in May and June. Introduced in 1784, by Chevalier Pautas. 
Propagated by cuttings of the root, Hardy, 
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