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Var. Banksii Andr. Flowers much doubled, rose colored, and 

 large. 



P. Brownii Douirl. Hook. FI. Bor. Am. 1:27, 1888. P. Califor- 

 nica ToiT. & Gray. Low: leaves glaucous or pale, lobes obovate to 

 nearly linear; tlowers dull brownish red; petals 5 or 6, thickish, little 

 longer than the concave sepals; outer sepals often leaf-like and com- 

 pound; flower-stem reclining or recurved; disk many lobed; follicles 

 4-5, nearly straight, glabrous, seeds oblong. Early spring or sum- 

 mer. Pacific States. Introduced 1881. Bot. Reg. 25:30. 



P. albiflora Pallas, Fl. Ross. 2, t. 84, 1784. P. edulis Salisb. 

 Stem 2-3 feet, often branching and bearing from 2-5 flowers; leaflets 

 3-4 inches long, oblong, deeper green than P. Brownii, veining red; 

 peduncle longer than in P. officinalts, often with a large simple bract; 

 outer sepals large, leaf -like; petals large, various in color, usually 

 white or pink; often 3-4 follicles, ovoid, with spiral stigmas. June. 

 Siberia. Bot. Mag. 1756. 



Var. Reevesiana Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 3:601. A double 

 form with deep red petals. 



Var. Sinensis Steud. Nom. 2 ed. 2:247. P. ChmenHls Vilm. 

 A tall Chinese variety with large, double, crimson flowers. — One of the 

 forms most used in gardens. Bot. Mag. 1768. 



Var. festivia Planchon. Fl. de Serr. 8:113, t. 790, 1853. 

 Flowers double, white with a few marks of carmine in the center. 



P. tenuifolia L. Syst. lOed. 1077.1758. P. tea a ifyjlm Hovt. 

 P. laciniata Pall, P. nnidtifida Gueld. Stem one to one-and-a-half 

 feet high, 1-headed, densely leafy up to the flower: leaves cut into 

 numerous segments, often less than one line broad; flower erect; petals 

 dark crimson, elliptic-cuneate, 1-1^ inches long; anthers shorter than 

 the filaments: follicles 2-3, about half inch long, stigma red, spirally 

 recurved. June. Caucasus region. Bot. Mag. 926, 



Var. flore=plena Hort. Dense double, crimson flower, 



Var. flore=pIena Hort. Flowers double and globular. 

 • P. officinalis L. Sp. PI. 503, 1753. 7*. /<r//V^^ Sabine. P. 

 foemina Vilm. P. eleyans Sabine. J\ commutata Wender. P. Ixi- 

 natica Rochel. P. lohata Desf. P. limitanica Tausch. J\ niaseiila 

 Mill. P. nehioralh Salisb. P. jyerrigeiiB Reichb. 1\ jrromiscua 

 Tausch. P. villosa Sweet. 



Stem stout, 2-3 ft. high, 1-headed; leaves dark above, pale be- 

 neath, the lowest more divided than the others, having 15-20 ol)long- 



