Mr. AxDERSON’s Monograph of the Genus Peonia. 273 
into this country is uncertain ; possibly from the Dutch, who seem 
to have retained a taste for Pæonies long after they had got out 
_of repute in this country. We found it in the nursery of Messrs. 
Chandler and Buckingham, at Vauxhall, who do not know from 
whence they obtained it... The figure in the Botanical Magazine 
is taken from their plant. i | 
It is characterized by narrower, more subdivided and smoother 
leaves than those of any other species in the present subdivision. 
It differs too from the following in its smooth follicles, and from 
it and all other known species in the stigmas being elongated and 
almost upright, resembling styles ; an important character, which 
Retz in his description, otherwise excellent, has altogether over- 
looked. 
9. Pmonta DECORA, 
P. foliolis tripartito-laciniatis oblongis obtusis canaliculatis sub- 
tus pilosis, germinibus pubescentibus patentibus, stigmati- 
bus recurvatis. : 
P. byzantina prior. Clus. Hist. p. 219. 
P. peregrina flore saturè rubente. Bauh. Pinax, 324. Raï Hist. 
v.i. p. 696. Moris. Hist. v. ii. p. 455. 
P. foemina byzantina. Park. Par. p. 342 & 343. 4.2? | 
Radix præcedentis, tuberibus tamen paullo majoribus, Caulis erectus, bi- tri-pedalis, gla- 
ber. Folia biternata, caulina horizontalia, parum reflexa, Foliola (intermedium 
trilobum) lateralia sub-decurrentia, hine interdum laciniata, oblonga, obtusiuscula, 
longitudinaliter canaliculata seu inflexa, minime undulata, glauca, non nitida, vix ru- 
gosa, margine rubicunda, subtus, ut et petioli partiales, parum pilosa. Pedunculi 
elongati, glabri. -Calyx pracedentis. : Petala circiter octo, parva, angusta, margine 
crispa, saturate kermesina. Germina 2—3, suberecta, pube albido leviter tecta, de- 
mum patentissima, rubicunda. Stigmata lunata, pallide-rubra. Semina ovata, atro- 
purpurea, levia, splendentia, — Floret ad finem Maii, 
This and the three succeeding species are nearly allied to each 
other: it is, however, frequently a much easier task to determine | 
MOL. XII. 2°N _a species 
