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ceased to indicate wealth and was forthwith banished from the 

 gardens of the rich, and left to cheer the humble door-yard of the 

 laborer, who loved it for the good its masses of marvelous color 

 would bring into his heart from day to day, 



3. Pceonia paradoxa, Anders. 



This species was probably first cultivated in the gardens of 

 Holland. Morrison (History of Plants, Vol. 2, p. 455), and Miller 

 in the last edition of his Dictionary (1768) named it P. Tartarica 

 and say it was raised from seed imported from the Levant. An- 

 derson also gives the Levant as the place of origin of this species. 

 It is quite late in coming into flower, and has not given rise to very 

 many horticultural varieties (Anderson, 1817). 



4. Pceonia anomala, Linn. 



This is a very distinct species, of which the earliest notice ap- 

 pears in Cmelin's Flora Siberica published at St. Peterburg in 

 1747. Linnaeus does not acknowledge this species in either volume 

 of his " Species Plantarum," but it is at length admitted in the 

 " Mantissa." It is a native of all Siberia, and frequent in the 

 Altaic Mountains. It was first introduced into England by a Mr. 

 Bell, who secured it from Pallas about the year 1788. Pallas sent 

 seeds of it to Mr. Murray under the name of P. heterophylla; 

 and it appears as P. quinquecapsularis in the description of the 

 Russian Empire by Georgi, who found it eastward of the River 

 Ural. The roots grow to great size in their native state, and 

 form a part of the food of the iMongol Tartars. (Anderson, 1817; 

 Baker, 1884). 



5. Pceonia tcnuifoUa, Linn. 



P. tenuifolia is a native of the Ukraine, between the Tanais and 

 Volga, on hilly grounds and perpendicular banks of the Terec. It 

 is plentiful in the Tourian Chersonesus. It first appeared in Zim's 

 " Goettingen Catalogue,'' published in 1757, and is in the second 

 edition of " Species Plantarum." The Hnear leaves alone are suffi- 

 cient to characterize this species. It is thought to have been in- 

 troduced into England by a Mr. Malcome in 1765. (Anderson and 

 Baker). 



6. PcEonia corallina, Retz. 



This is the plant recognized as Pceonia Mas by Pliny and other 

 ancient writers. Retzius, a student of Linnaeus, first described it 



