288 Mr. Axprrsox's Monograph of the Genus P«onia. 
have quoted as referable to P. arietina B. Oxoniensis, make onc of 
his unknown Pæonies. 
The next species, P. peregrina of our paper, I cannot refer to 
that, to which the same name is applied by M. De Candolle in his 
present work; relying on the reference in his Flore Française, to the 
figure in the Bot. Mag., we had considered the P. peregrina of his 
work as our species ; but in the Systema Naturale Regni Vegetabilis 
the P. peregrina of the Hort. Kew. and of the Bot. Mag. (of the 
identity of which plant we are quite certain) is made the variety y. 
of his species; and this variety must hercafter be referred to as a 
synonym of our P. peregrina e. Dyzantina : with our two other va- 
rieties of P. peregrina, viz. compacta and Grevillei, I must suppose 
M. De Candolle to be unacquainted; it then remains for me to find 
a place for the varieties &. and £. of his P. peregrina in our arrange- 
ment. We have concluded that our P. paradoxa is the P. pro- 
miscua of. the old authors, of Lobel, Gerrard, and John Baubin. 
To this plant of these writers, as well as to the P. altera sive 
neutra of Caspar Dauhin, we on examination of the living plant 
referred that species. M. De Candolle, with his plant (a native of 
Trance, found by himself,) before him, has referred it to the same 
authors: our description of the plant exactly accords with his, 
and particularly agrees in the circumstance of its low growth. 
The only difference which prevents my coming to a decided con- 
clusion in the identity of the two is, that M. De Candolle, in his 
specific character, has ** capsulis tomentosis basi erectis apice di- 
vergentibus," whilst the corresponding part of our specific charac- 
ter is * germinibus adpressis tomentosis,” the diy ergence of the 
germens being one of the points by which our P. peregrina is di- 
stinguished-from P. paradoxa. Notwithstanding this difficulty, I 
think it will turn out that our P. paradoaa is the P. peregrina «æ, of 
M. De Candolle; but we must wait for specimens or plants from 
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