Mr. ANDEnRSON's Monograph of the Genus Peonia. — 967 
of flowering as the preceding; germens generally three, upright at 
first and finally diverging. " 
Notwithstanding the partial pubescence observable on this and 
the preceding, we are in no kind of doubt in considering them 
mere varieties of the first-described and of the double-flowered 
varieties enumerated below. 
ò. rubra; floribus plenissimis atro-purpureis. Double red Peony. 
P. femina polyanthos; Lobel Ic. 684. 
P. polyanthos. Camerarius Hort. pi 114. 
P. flore pleno rubro. Joh. Bauh. v. iii. p. 493. ) 49 7 
P. foemina flore pleno rubro majore. C. B. Pinav, p. 324 Mo- 
 vison Plant. Hist. v. ii. p. 455. t. 13. | 
P. foemina multiplex. Ger. Em. p.981. Tabernem. Ic. p. 184. 
P. foemina vulgaris flore pleno rubro. Park. Par. :p. 342 & 343. 
ugs 3. . 
P. officinalis rubra. Double red Peony. Sabine in Hort. Trans. 
(V. li. p. 214. | 
To this variety we may apply the words of Besler; * vulgatis- 
sima est omnium Pzoniarum ;" and we may add without e 
geration, the most splendid of all flowers. Even the fine double 
Pæonies from China, rich and: magnificent as they are, cannot be 
compared for brilliance with this common inhabitant of almost 
every cottager's garden in England. Nothing but its extreme 
vulgarity and the extraordinary foecundity of its roots could: have 
brought this beautiful plant into the neglect it has suffered for a 
century past. — ee 
The first account given of it is in the edition of Lobel’s Icones, 
1581. Camerarius writes, in 1588, “id est flore pleno quz ante 
paucos annos ápud. nos est coepta. coli ;" from which we may 
conclude that it was at that time a recent discovery.. The gar- 
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