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978 Mr. Awpznsox's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 
unchanged their respective habits. It is not possible, however, 
in the present state of our information, for us to pronounce 
whether these ‘be specifically distinct or not; and we deem it 
expedient, in order to pave the way for a subsequent decision 
on this point, to give a separate description of each, as we have 
observed it. | 
P. peregrina, De Candolie informs us, is a native of the moun- 
tains of Provence and Languedoc, chiefly near Montpellier; also 
abundant on the mountains La Serane and Pic St. Loup, and in 
the forest of Valene; but which of our plants, (or whether all 
three together) is intended by him, unfortunately his defective 
description denies us the means of judging. It also belongs to 
the Levant, as will afterwards appear. Bulliard, vol. iii. p. 300, 
we think rofa to it; aang = nn is bad, and his figure 
bé HOPES S298 QIOUW. PERL ST 5 l 
P. peregrina. Bot. Mar 1050. 
P. byzantina altera. Clus. Hist. 279. 
P. peregrina flore dilute rubente. C. B. Pinar, p. 324. 
P. pomi aurantii colore. Morison Hist. v. ii. p. 455; exclus. syn. 
Radicis tubera fibris brevibus adnata, numerosa, teretia, oblonga. ^ Caulis bipedalis et 
ultra, erecto-flexuosus, pilis albis tectus. Folia biternata, læte seu dilute viridia, pe- 
tiolis glabriusculis.  Foliolum intermedium trilobatum, raro ternatum, hine varie et 
profunde incisum seu pinnatifidum, basi decurrens. — Lateralia integra nonnunquam 
bilobata, basiobtusiuscula. Lacinia planiusculz tamen subundulate, ovate, obtusi- 
uscule, minus rugosæ, sinubus rubentibns; subtus cano-pilose, supra glabra, sed 
.. monnitide. Bracteæ frondosæ, integræ, calyci approximate. Calycis foliola exte- 
riora bracteis non distinguenda, inferiora obtusa, glabriuscula, margine rubicunda, 
à: Petala 8, integriuscula, obovata, apice erosa, kermesina. Germina 2, rarissime 3, ca- 
no-tomentosa, primo congesta demum divergentia, triplo minora quam P. arietinæ. 
Semina ovato-oblonga, acuta, nigra, levia, splendentia. Floret medio Maii. |. 
Clusius received seeds of a Peony from Constantinople in 1588; 
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