200 Mr. ANDERSON'S Monograph of the Genus Pæonia. 
P. paradoxa, as such we have referred to his figure, in the syno- 
nyms of the double variety; and our P. paradoxa I have before 
stated to be in my opinion the P. peregrina æ. of M. De Candolle. 
The P. laciniata in like manner is founded on a single autho- 
rity only, that of Willdenow's Enumeratio. Willdenow's plant 
came from Siberia; and it might be suspected that he had got 
Pallas's P. laciniata, which is the P. anomala of Linnzeus and all 
subsequent writers, and had erroneously considered it distinct, 
being misled by the name, but that he describes it ** capsulis 
tomentosis." This circumstance (since it cannot be admitted that 
it is another species, or it would have found its way to other col- 
lections from the Berlin garden,) makes it probable that Willde- 
now's P. laciniata was only a strong-growing plant of P. tenui- 
folia, perhaps in the very state figured by Pallas as P. Aybrida. 
M. De Sandla bas described his =. laciniata with * pee to- 
North Minus: ; 
20" December, 1817, 
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