Mr. ANpznsox's Monograph of the Genus Pæonia. 263 
P. tenuifolia: Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. p. 748. Gmelin Sib. iv. p. 185. 
t.73. Linn. Fil. Plant. Rar. fase. i. P- 9. t.5. Pall. Ross. ii. 
p. 95. t.87. Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. p. 1993. Gert. Fruct. i. p. 309. 
t. 65. f. 1. Bot. Mag. 996. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. p. 316. 
P. laciniis foliorum linearibus... Zinn Cat. Got, p. 127. 
P. hybrida. Pall. Ross. ii. p. 94. t. 86. Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. p. 1223. 
Radix tuberum fasciculus, surculis repentibus. Caulis sesquipedalis, valde foliosus, glaber. 
Folia triternata, multifida, glabra, ad apicem caulis aggregata, quibus flos quasi nidu- 
latur. Foliola linearia subulata ; radicalia nonnunquam lineari-lanceolata ; hine P, hy- 
brida Pallasii. Calycis foliola glabra, integra, interiora orbiculata, mucronulata, exte- 
rioraacuta. Folia apud apicem caulis aggregata. Corolla minima saturate sanguinea, 
Petala 8, incurva, obovato-lanceolata, obtusa, apice erosa. Germina 2—3 raro 4, recta, 
approximata, demum patentiuscula, nec revoluta, villis purpureis dense vestita. Stigmata 
erectiuscula, rubra, Semina oblongo-elliptica, fusco-atra, levia, Floret initio Maii. - 
Native of the Ukraine, between the Tanais and Volga, on hilly 
grounds and perpendicular banksof the'Terec. Plentiful in the Tau- 
rian Chersonesus. It first appeared in Zinn's Gottingen Catalogue, 
published in 1757, and is adinitted into the second edition of the 
Species Plantarum by Linné, who indulges in a fancy that one might 
imagine it was a bastard offspring of Pæonia and Adonis apennina. 
The linear leaves are alone sufficient to characterize this spe- 
cies. The creeping surculi of its roots are also peculiar to it; and 
the small dark but bright. red flower, supported on a very short 
peduncle and nestled as it were among the finely-divided leaves 
that crowd around the top of the stalk, together with the purple 
hairs which cover the germens, all sufficiently distinguish it from 
any other Peony. It appears to have been introduced into this 
country by the late Mr. Malcolm, so far back as 1765. 
P. hybrida of Pallas is not even a permanent variety. The ste- 
rile or rather the radical leaves in rich ground almost constantly 
assume.a lineari-lanceolate form; indeed both descri ptions of 
leaves are frequently produced on the same root. We have exa- 
mined 
