Mr, Axprrson’s Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 981 
aut trifide, fissuris brevibus, obtusis, confertæ, imbricatæ, planiuseule, tamen sub- 
undulatæ, margine rubicunde ; supra glabra, rugose, saturate virides; subtus czesio- 
pilose. Foliolum intermedium quandoque decurrens; lateralia basi obtusissima, ro- 
tundata. Pelioli glabri, Bracteæ integra, lanceolate, hinc incisæ, scu bilobe. Calyx 
glaber, foliolis tribus exterioribus foliaceis, acutis, reliquis orbiculatis parum retusis, 
Petala 8, obovata, lacera, interdum bifida, patentia, violaceo-kermesina. Germina 
plerumque duo, rarius tria, erecta, adpressa: folliculi maturi tamen patentiusculi, 
Styli angusti, hamato-reflexi, Semina nigra, spherico-ovata, exigua, lævia, splenden- 
tia. Floret initio Junii. E. 
From a general coincidence we conclude this to be the P; proinis- 
cua of the old authors. - Both the varieties we believe came ori- 
ginally from Holland at some early period. . It appears to be a 
native of the Levant. | TEEN 44 
This is the latest in coming into flower of all Ponies, excepting 
albiflora ; its flowers seldom expand before the latter end of May: 
it forms a dense tuft of leaves and flowers, more dwarf than humilis, 
and is the lowest in stature of all the species excepting mollis. 
From peregrina it differs in the leaves being small, ovate, and 
anore glaucous; the leaflets more divided, crowded, and imbri- 
cated ; the ultimate fissures shallow and obtuse; in the germens 
being close pressed together, and very little separated even in 
the ripe follicles. - ` | 
These considerations, together with the uniformity of character 
in the two varicties, which both flower a fortnight later, have in- 
duccd us to remove them from peregrina: future observation may 
decide whether our judgement be correct. Our learned Presi- 
dent, who must bave had this plant before him in describing 
P. peregrina in Rees’s Cyclopedia, observes with his usual correct- 
ness, that it does not accord with P. peregrina flo. coccineo of Besler, 
the figure of which is that of our peregrina; nor with byzantina 
of Gerard and Parkinson, which is our decora. dp 
a, simpliciflora ; caule omnino glabro, floribus S-petalis. a 
' To be found in most of the nurseries, under the mistaken name 
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