254  Mr.Axpznsox's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
terraneous caudex of the herbaceous plants, of which it seems to 
be nothing more than a prolongation, each annual shoot being 
simple and subtended by numerous vaginal stipulæ, which in 
those rise only to the surface of the ground, and are not wanting 
in any of the species. ‘The membrane too which envelops the 
germens, and which some botanists have suspected should re- 
move this plant to a new genus, is only a more extended example. 
of the truly perigynous crown which surrounds the base of the 
germens in all the Ponies. 
The seeds are represented as being black; we have not seen 
them matured: its leaves are not shining as in albiflora, nor are 
they totally divested of pubescence. ‘The woolly germens would 
sufficiently distinguish it from that species, though all the other 
marks were removed. bss zisog oum tá 
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a. papaveracea; petalis 8—13, albis, basi macula purpurea no- 
wc ^ 
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P. papaveracea. Bot. Repos. 463. : Rees's Cycl.. -— — 
Introduced by Sir Abraham Hume, about the year 1806, from 
China. This should be considered as the type of the species, the 
other varieties having double flowers. Its capacity to stand the 
rigour of our climate is not as yet sufficiently tried, being still 
too rare and valuable to risk with the full experiment; but we 
think it will prove to be hardy. Its petals are white, very broad 
and large, obcordate, with a blotch of deep purple at the base 
of each. The membrane that surrounds the germens is more en- 
tire in this than in the other varieties, the united mass of germens 
is ovato-spherical, and more tapering at theapex than the capsule 
of the poppy, with only a small orifice at the top to let out the 
stigmas, which are reflexed and form a star of bright purple: these; 
m with 
