264 Mr. Anperson'’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
mined many plants said to be seedlings, but never have discovered 
any perceptible variation in them. | 
5. PEoNIA OFFICINALIS. 
P. foliolis inæqualiter laciniatis glabris, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, 
germinibus rectiusculis tomentosis. i : 
P. officinalis. Pall. Ross. pars ii. p. 93. Retz. Obs. iii. p. 35. 
Smith. Prodr. Flo. Grec. i. p. 369. Lamarck et Decand. Flo. 
| Franc. v. iv. p. 919. Scopoli Carn. v. i. p. 378. Host Syn. 
p.66. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. ii. p. 1221. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. lil. 
p.315. Bot. Mag. 1784. 
P. officinalis æ. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. p. 747. 
P. communis vel foemina. Bauh. Phyt. n. 4. Pinar, p. 323. Mo- 
rison Pl. Hist. p. 454. | 
P. foemina prior. Dod. Pempt. p. 195. . 
P. femina vulgatior. Joh. Bauhin. v. iii. p. 492. —— j 
P. fæminea, &c. Ger. Em. p. 981. Lobel. Icones, 682. Park. 
+ Par. p.343. Rau Hist. v. i. p. 098. | 
P. fcemina foliis difformiter lobatis. Mill. Dict. 
P. rubra flo. simpl. Besler Eyst. ordo vi. p. 15. 3 
La Pivoine femelle. Regnault Bot. Planche. 
Radicis tubera oblonga, obtusa, e fibris dependentia. Caulis simplex, 3—4-pedalis, flexuo- 
sus, glaber, nitidus, Petioli glabri, nitidi, Axille foliorum et foliolorum fusca. Folia 
glabra, interdum tamen subtus pilosiuscula, ternata. Foliola pinnata seu pinnatifida, 
intermedio quandoque decurrente, varie dissecta, bi- seu tri-partita, hinc integra. 
_ Lacinie@ lato-lanceolate, modo fisse, plane, subconcolores. Bractea foliacea, ter- 
nata vel incisa, calyci approximata. Corolla magna, speciosa. Petala 7—8, incurva, 
obovata. Germina recta 2— 3, tomento albo dense tecta, demum ferruginea. Stig- 
mata semilunaria, fusca, marginibus flavis. Semina magna, ovata, parum corrugata, - 
cœruleo-atra, splendentia. Floret medio ad finem Maii. | 
Nativeof the mountainous woods of Helvetia, Provence, Mont- 
pellier, Dauphiné, Piedmont, Carniola, the Grecian Islands, and. 
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