PHONIA OFFICINALIS. == COMMON PEONY, 
SYNONYMA. Pezonia. Pharm. Dale. 17 . see ifien. i. 485. 
Lewis. 470, Edinb. New Difp. 246. Murray. ii. 37. - Bergius. 
477. Pzonia folio nigricante fplendido, que mas—et. Pzonia 
foemina, &e. Baub. Pin. 323. Ger. Emac. 980. Park. Theat. 
1381. Ray. Hit. 693. Pzonia foliis. lobatis ex cn tingel 
Hall, Helv, Miller. Dia, Le, Mill. Mlupe. 
ae Digynia. Lis, Gen, Plant, 678. _ 
Gen, ba Cale s-phylus, Palo Ss Syl 0 ce Oops polyfperme, 
Sp. Ch, P. foliolis cbongis, pee 4 RS jane ‘. 
ROOT perennial, ane iene asternsiles ‘ial, “intekdlly 
white, compact. Stalks two feet in height, thick, fmooth, Kisieaic: 
branched. Leaves pinnated, or cut into lobes, which are: oblong, 
few, terminated by an odd one, Flowers large, terminal, folitary, 
red. Calyx compofed of five. unequal ovate concave leaves. Corolla 
naturally confifting of five large petals, which are roundith and 
concavé, Filaments about thirty, thort, flender, fupporting oblong 
quadrangular anthere. Germina two, ovate, erect,. . hairy. Styles 
none, Stigmata hooked, — Capfules two, opt ‘oblong, inclining 
outwardly, fi ngle-celled, fingle-valved,, and d epataming numerous 
{mall feeds. 
Peony is a “native of Swrierecbaritt it has been. cultivated i in Britain 
fince the time of Turner, and i is now a common plagt 4 in the P Englith 
prdene, where i it flowers | in Me and Funes, i 
This 
