276 Mr. Axpznsox's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
deenshire, where it is still to. be found under the name of the 
Single Pæony, and the only species with single flowers we ever 
observed in those parts. | 
We attach J. Bauhin's synonym without hesitation; his de- 
scription of it, which Ray and succeeding authors have copied, 
being so applicable: ** Folia siquidem que imis ramis herent, 
latiora sunt quam cæterarum, rotundioraque ; aversa parte glauca, 
hirsuta, adversa saturatius virentia itidemque pilis obsita ; siliqua 
retortæ, hirsutie alba tote contecta." 
From analogy we presume it to be a native of the Levant. Its 
flowers are of a bright but deep rose colour, resembling most 
those of daurica, and appear very handsome over its abundant 
dark though glaucous leaves. Morison’s figure, No. 3, is so bad 
that we cannot quote it. 
B. oxoniensis ; floribus carneis, petalis lacero-crispis. 
E RS Plant. Rar. P: 281. ÈS 
P. cretica. 
P. folio subtus incano, flore albo vel pallido. C. B. T. D. 323. : 
Moris. Hist v. ii. p. 454. | 
P. feemina flore carneo simplici. Park. Par. p. 342. 
P. mas major flore incarnato. Besler Eyst. Vern. ordo vi. p. 11. 
This is probably No. 6. Ger. Em. p. 981, as to the description, 
“ in our London gardens bearing flowers of a pale whitish colour, 
very single, resembling the female wilde Peiony ;" although the 
figure of No. 6 is that of another species (humilis). And from 
Parkinson's notice of it we presume it must have been among the 
gardens in his days, though no where to be found three years ago 
in this country but in the Oxford botanic garden, where it seems 
to have existed unnoticed and unknown since the time of Mori- 
son, whose description of it is very satisfactory: “ quam in horto 
alimus, cujus folia latiuscula lanugine alba utrinque obsita sunt. 
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