Mr. ANpxnsox's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 277 
Flores simplices primo emergentes, subcarnei, deinde in albos 
transmutantur.” Mr. Sabine was indebted to the liberality of 
Professor Williams for roots of it from the Oxford botanic gar- 
den. 
From Clusius we learn tbat this is a native of valleys on the 
highest mountains in Crete; which its habit confirms, having all 
that woolly-like softness in its young stalks and leaves so peculiar 
to the plants of that island. If it be P. ochranthemos Camerarii, 
it has been found in Navarre ; but this last authority is not at all 
. conclusive. . i 
This is among the earliest of Pæonies ; comes out of the ground 
of a pale glaucous green colour, destitute of the ruddy tint so 
common in the genus. Petals of a beautiful pale blush colour, 
crisp, and lacerated in a greater than usual degree.  Follicles 
almost reflexed when ripe, less woolly and of a lighter colour 
than those of var. æ. Roots of a Peony have been imported by 
Messrs. Chandler and Buckingham from Holland which prove 
to be this plant. 
11. PxoNIA PEREGRINA. 
P. foliolis tripartito-laciniatis integrisque ovato-lanceolatis plani- 
usculis subtus pilosis, germinibus tomentosis rectis. T 
P. peregrina. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. LA 315. De Cand. Flor. 
| Franc. v. v. p. 643. | ; 
F: peregrina flore coccineo. Besler Bit: M ordo vi. p. 9. 
P. peregrina foliis difformiter lobatis &c. - Mill. Dict. ed. viii. 3 
This species is involved in much obscurity among the old au- 
thors; and since it has been restored by modern writers, no de- 
tailed description of it has yet been published. For several years 
successively we have examined three plants, each of them dif- 
fering considerably from the other, and they prove to retain 
unchanged 
