266 Mr. Anvenson’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
Great Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire, where it possibly had re- 
mained undisturbed many years. The flowers are precisely of the 
same colour with those of the common double-red, but the petals - 
expand a few days earlier. The leaves are less waved. The petals 
of all the single-flowered varieties are more inflexed than those 
of the pubescent species, being formed into the shape of a cup, 
contracted at the mouth. An abundant supply, of plants of this 
variety, has been imported from Holland since the peace, not 
differing materially from Mr. Sabine’s plant. The figure in the. 
Botanical Magazine was taken from one of those. 
B. rosea; floribus saturate roseis, caulibus erectis. 
This variety was observed by Mr. Sabine in the Oxford botanic 
garden, along with the plant that follows. We cannot obtain any 
account of their history : they have in all probability been very 
old tenants of that garden ; perhaps since the days of Morison, in 
the latter end of the seventeenth century; ; nor do they seem to have 
found their way out of it, till Mr. Sabine was obligingly presented 
with roots of them by Professor Williams. 
This has very broad undulated and obtuse leaflets, of a dark 
hue, tinged with red on the edges, and with a few slight hairs on 
the ribs of the under surface. Flowers of a pleasant rose colour; 
germens 2—3, densely tomentose, diverging at the apex. Stem 
erect, as tall as var. æ, flowering a fortnight earlier, about the 
middle of May. 
y. blanda; floribus saturate roseis, caulibus laxis. 
Obtained, as before mentioned, from the Oxford garden.  'The 
leaflets of this variety are likewise broad, though less so than the 
preceding; also much less undulated, and of a peculiarly pale 
green colour for a plant of this species: and, like those of the 
rosea, furnished with a few hairs on the back of the leaf. Stalks 
spreading ; petioles reddish ; flower of same colour and same time 
of 
