Mr. ANDERsON’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 275 
plant altogether more robust and rather more pubescent; un- 
questionably a mere variety. | | 
10. PxoNraA ARIETINA. 
P. foliolis trilobatis pinnatifidisque decurrentibus ovali-oblongis 
planiusculis subtus pilosis, folliculis tomentosis arcuato-pa- 
tentibus. 
Radicis tubera ut in precedente. Caulis 2—21-pedalis, suberectus, pilosiuseulus. Petioli 
foliolis subzequalibus axillis pilosis. Folia pedalia, sub-biternata seu ternata, pinnatifi- 
da ; foliola sparsim lobata, basi decurrentia, tunc inciso-dentata, integraque, ovata, ob- 
tusiuscula, rugosa, supra glabra, subtus glauco-pilosa. Bractee foliosæ, acute, Calyx 
basi pilosus ; foliola duo exteriora acuminata, reliqua orbiculata, cava, obtusa, Petala 
. mediocriter crispa, vix lacera. Germina 2—3, magna, tomentosa, primo patentia, de- 
mum arcuata, parum recurvata. Stigmata compressa, lunata, brevia, rubicunda. 
Semina ovata, nigra, rugosa. Floret a medio ad finem Maii. 
This species is by much the largest among those of the present 
division. Its distinguishing characters consist in the leaflets being 
decurrent, often even confluent, and in the germens being arched 
and frequently recurved, suggesting a resemblance to rams’-horns : 
it seems to have been well known to the old authors, as will ap- 
pear in describing the varieties. 
a. Andersonii ; floribus saturate roseis, petalis minus crispis. 
P. promiscua Vormarii folio latiore. J. Bauh. Hist. 0. iii. Eds 493. 
Rau Hist. v. i. p. 695. Moris. Hist. v. ii. p. 454. , 
Es byzantina. major, Besler Ey yst. Vern. ordo. vi. p. 14? 
This pl int, to. which Mr. Sabine gave the cognomen, owing 
to his having obtained it from me several years ago, though not 
common about London, probably having been banished with 
contempt for its single flower, is nevertheless still to be seen in 
remote parts of the country in the gardens of old baronial man- 
sions: in such situations we knew it many years ago in Aber- - 
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