Mr. Axvunxson’s Monograph of the Genus Peonia. — 283 
This species is entirely unrecorded. It was raised by Messrs. 
Loddiges and Sons of Hackney, from seeds obtained from Pallas, 
and said to be from Siberia; although from its appearance we 
should rather suspect it to have come from the Crimea, where 
that respected naturalist spent the latter years of his life. From 
Messrs. Loddiges it has found its way into the gardens of the 
curious under the mistaken name of anomala. We distinguished 
it three years ago in Mr. Sabine’s collection as a truly distinct. 
species; and it has been reserved for us first to describe it. 
crowded, overlapping each other, very woolly on the under-side, 
nowise bordered with red as in most of the others, and the lateral 
leaflets being almost sessile, the exterior side of each disposed to 
be decurrent. It is the most dwarf of all our species, seldom 
reaching eighteen inches in height even in our gardens. The stalks 
as well as the primary petioles are nearly smooth. "The flower is 
small, of a dark dull purplish-red, by no means handsome. 
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friend, he was accidentally killed by a fall from a carriage. ‘This me- 
lancholy event happened on the 10th of January last, near his own 
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