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from the natural habitats, should very much reduce the number 
of synonyms of modern writers which have been hitherto applied 
to this species, and- that by this operation the native places of 
growth of those new species described by us from cultivated 
plants only, should be discovered. One reference of M. De Can- 
dolle, viz. that to “Saku Jaku, Kempf. Amen. v. p. 862," I must 
consider as very doubtful: the result of every inquiry I have 
made is, that only P. Moutan and P. albiflora, with all their va- 
ricties, are cultivated in China and Japan ; the Botan of Kæmpfer 
is the first of these species, and I believe the Saku Jaku is a va- 
riety of the latter with single red flowers, and that the two double 
varieties of the same, mentioned by Kæmpfer, are our P. albiflora 
Whitleji and P. albiflora fragrans. | 
P. corallina is now so well known that no doubts can exist 
about it, or the synonyms referable to it. M. De Candolle has 
confirmed our belief, that P. daurica is the P. triternata of Pal- 
las and Georgi: and P. humilis is so well settled by the authority 
and accuracy of Retz, that no difficulty can exist relating to it. 
The synonyms which we have applied to our P. decora, are all 
referred by M. De Candolle to his P. lobata; and I am inclined 
to think they are the same, though from the circumstance of his 
plant being quite smooth in the leaves, and ours being hairy un- 
derneath, théy must, if brought together as a species, remain as 
distinct varieties: in all other points, except this one, they agree. 
As the P. lobata is cultivated in France, and as Mr. MacLeay 
has got a plant of it from Paris in his garden, the question will 
be probably settled in the next summer. | 
With our P. arietina M. De Candolle seems to be quite unac- 
quainted ; the synonyms of Bauhin and Morison, applied by us : 
to P. arietina e. Andersonii, are referred with a mark of doubt to 
his P. peregrina; whilst those of Clusius and Dauhin, which we 
have 
