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Pxonta MouTAn, var. PAPAVERACEA. SINGLE- 
FLOWERED MoutTan. 
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Class and Order. 
PotyanpriA Dieynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Styli 0. Capsule 2—5, po- 
lysperme, intus dehiscentes. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Pzonia Moutan; caule perenni lignescente, foliolis oblongis 
subtus glaucis villosiusculis : extremo trilobato, capsulis 
[quinis.] Bot. Mag. No. 1154. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 
p. 315. 
(a.) flore simplice, capsulis quinis. 
Pzonra papaveracea. Bot. Repos. t. 463. 
(G.) flore multiplict, capsulis plurimis. 
Pxonta Moutan. Bot. Mag. 1154. Ubi synonyma petenda. 
This beautiful plant is figured by Mr. AnpRews in the 
Botanist’s Repository, from the first of the kind imported into 
this country, still in the collection of Sir Asranam Hume, 
Bart. at Wormleybury, and is, we suppose, the origin from 
whence all the individuals in our different collections have 
been derived, through the liberality of its possessor. 
In the Repository it was considered as a distinct species, 
and called papaveracea from th é ing 
says, “ attached together and enshrined within a globular 
exterior, resembling a Poppy”. But this membranous en- 
velope is by no means peculiar to this variety, or even to the 
species, but it soon bursts and the capsules become distinct. 
We have no hesitation in considering our plant as belonging 
to the same: species as all the other known varieties of the 
Moutan, 
e germens, being as the writer 
