272 Mr. Anverson’s Monograph of the Genus Pæonia. 
Radicis tubera numerosa, parva, elliptica. Caulis sesqui-bipedalis, flexuosus, angulatus, 
glaber. Petioli glabri, partialis medius lateralibus duplo longior. Felia biternata vel 
|. ternato-trifida, valde et inæqualiter incisa seu pinnatifida, supra saturate viridia, rugo- 
"^o siuscula, glabra, margine rubicunda : subtus glauca, villis obsoletis demum evanescen- 
tibus tecta, venis prominentibus glabriusculis ; laciniæ lanceolat, apice attenuate, 
| acutae, incurvo-canaliculate, undulate, transverse reflexæ. Pedunculi sulcati, elon- 
gati. Bracteæ (una vel altera) integrz.seusimpliciter fisse, calyci approximate. Ca- 
lyx. glaber, foliis exterioribus planis, interioribus concavis muticis. Petala 6—8, 
eroso-marginata, parum laciniata, purpureo- sanguinea. Germina 2, raro 3, primo 
. recta, leviter pubescentia, denique patentiuscula, glabra ; folliculi maturi vix reflexi. 
- Stigmata persistentia, elongata, erecta, apice reflexa (hujus speciei signum prestantis- 
'-.. simum). Semina anguloso-ovata, atro-purpurea, levia, splendentia. Floret initio 
.. Mai. = 
"This species may be recognised with tolerable precision as that 
mentioned by Clusius, an acute observer and original writer, who 
described a um number of. ell then. laser alte which he ob- 
test 1 century nihi diseovered. iti in ». Spain: which i is. ; happily 
MÀ sa our. gie yma Shuter lately. ; returned from 
that country, who says he saw P. humilis grewing abundantly on 
the mountains. It seems indeed to belong exclusively to Spain, 
unless it be what De Candolle considers a variety of P. peregrina, 
observed by him on the Serane mountains with smooth germens, 
and the segments of the leaves * plus pales et plus allongés," which 
we think highly probable. P. lusitanica of Miller, ** with flowers 
of an agreeable sweet scent,” cannot be reconciled with this or - 
with any species we know. We suspect that Willdenow did not 
know this species, otherwise he could not have mistaken P. para- 
doxa var. P. for a double-flowering variety of it in bis Enum. Plan- 
tarum. | | 
The ust ct we describe is probably an offspring from the 
seeds obtained from Spain through Clusius: how or when it came 
-into 
