274 Mr. Anverson’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
a species than to describe it. Being satisfied that they are distinct, 
we have endeavoured to give the: best distinguishing characters 
that a close examination of three seasons has afforded us. | 
Our present plant we do not hesitate to refer to that which 
Clusius obtained from Constantinople ; as the description which 
he and the succeeding writers give of it agrees with ours, and it 
also comes from the same quarter. 
It is remarkable for the elegant stateliness of its habit. Each 
stalk accompanied by its horizontal leaves, diminishing as they 
ascend, and terminated by its flower, (which is rather smaller than 
is usual in the genus,) supported on a long peduncle, exhibits 
somewhat of a pyramidal figure. Its leaflets are constantly more 
or less longitudinally inflexed or concave: in this respect it re- 
sembles the last described, but differs from itin the leaflets being 
broad and obtuse. The follicles are less pubescent than those of 
the three following species, but more so than those of- the pre- 
ceding; they are very large, and at maturity diverge widely, but 
do not become so much recurved as those of P. arietina. We 
have only observed two varieties. 
e. Pallasii ; foliolis anguste oblongis. 
Seeds of this plant were received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy - 
from Pallas, probably from the Crimea, where he spent the latter 
years of his life. The name he gave it, if any, has been lost ; they 
called it byzantina : its flower has a fine deep rose colour, in 
shape and appearance not unlike that of Papaver somniferum ; 
the seedlings came up without exhibiting any apparent variation. 
B. elatior ; foliolis lato-oblongis. 
First observed in the nursery of Messrs. Chandler and Buck- 
ingham, who believe. they got it from Holland. It differs from 
the preceding in the leaves. — somewhat broader, and: the 
plant 
