282 Mr. Anperson’s Monograph of the Genus Peonia. 
of humilis: the follicles are of a paler green than in peregrina; 
petals a dark purplish-red, often bifid, or a little lacerated. - 
B. fimbriata ; caule vix pilosiusculo, floribus plenis. 
P. flore pleno rubro minore. C. Bauh. Pin. p. 324. 
P. flore pleno rubro, minor. J. Bauh. v. iii. p. 493. taii Hist. 
. ©. L. p. 090. om 
P. foliis difformiter lobatis pubescentibus.. Mill. Fig. of Plants, 
199: mala. 
P. flore pleno dran pua Moris. Hist. v. ii. p. A55, 
et Sect. xii. tab. 1. fig. 
P. humilis. Willd. Enum. b 
P. paradoxa fimbriata. Double fringed Pæony. Sabine in Hort. 
Trans, v. ii. p. 216. 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy have long possessed dis plant; and 
Méssrs. Loddiges and Son imported it from Holland under the 
name of the double-purple Peony. It is the only plant among 
the pubescent species with double flowers. These are of a beautiful 
purplish crimson, smaller in size, and with the inner petals more’ 
linear and divided than those of the double varieties of P. officinalis, 
giving it the appearance of a fringed tassel. It accords in every 
material circumstance with the single-flowered pum 
| 13. Ponta MOLLIS. 
D. foliolis ovali-lanceolatis planis lobatis imbricatis subtus cæsio- 
pilosis; lateralibus subsessilibus; germinibus tomentosis rectis, 
Radicis fibre longe, tuberibus longis desinentes. Caulis pedalis et ultra, rigidus, stric- 
— tus, pilosiusculus, dense foliosus. — Petioli breves, supra glabri, subtus pilosiusculi ; 
_ partiales undique pilosi. Folia dodrantia, inæqualiter subtriternata, complanata, ho- 
rizontalia, saturate coeruleo-viridia, Foliola lateralia subsessilia extus decurrentia, 
profunde lobata, lato-lanceolata, plana, obtusa, congregata seu imbrieata, venis fuscis 
parallelis, subtus dense pilosa, glauca; supra glabra, nitidiuscula. Bracteæ foliaceæ, 
integræ et incise. Calycis foliola obtusa, exteriora pubescentia, integra, Germina 
2—3 rectiuscula, adpressa, apice distantia, molliter pubescentia, pilis ferrugineis, 
Semina equaliter ovata, rugosiuscula, nitida, — a medio ad finem Maii, 
This 
