Mr. Anverson’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 279 
his description of which, under P. altera, accords with the pre- 
sent plant: it may therefore be considered as a native of the Le- 
vant. If our quotation from Morison be correct, it must have 
been an old tenant of our gardens, although it is not now com- 
monly to be seen. Our plant was obtained from Kew, the same 
from whence the drawing was taken for the Botanical Magazine. 
This plant is remarkable for the pale grass-green colour of its 
leaves, which Clusius and Morison both take notice of ; these are 
much divided, and covered underneath with white hairs. It 
comes into flower a little later than arietina, from which it differs 
in the leaflets being more obtuse at the base, seldom decurrent, 
in the whole plant beiti considerably smaller, and in the germens 
being straight and erect. 
If the oblong shape of the seeds be a permanent character, it 
alone would be sufficient to distinguish it as a separate species. 
B. compacta. 
Radicis tubera minora quam a, Caulis sesquipedalis.. Folia biternata, saturate viridia, 
lato-ovata, plana nec undulata, minime rugosa, crebre laciniata, laciniis apice obtu- 
sissimis; foliola lateralia trilobata seu ternata, conferto-imbricata, Calyx basi pilo- 
siusculus; foliola exteriora frondosa, incisa. Germina duo. Semina rotundata, nigra, 
levia, splendentia. (Cztera ut in precedente.) 
Found in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy under the 
name of anomala: but we are unable to obtain any account of 
its origin; nor can any notice of it be discovered among the au- 
thors, only that, as it corresponds sufficiently with De Candolle’ s 
description, and having traced the foregoing plant to Constan- 
tinople, we might conjecture that this comes from the south of 
France. It is probably a distinct species. It differs from para- 
doxa, which it much resembles, in the fissures of the leaves being 
deeper though nearly equally obtuse, petals entire, calyx pu- 
bescent, and germens scarcely ever more than two, besides its 
being 
