30 



* P^ONIA BrSwnii. 

 Dougla^ Californian Pceony. 



POLYANDRIA Dl-PENTAGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEiE. 



PJEONIA. Botanical Register, vol. I. /o^. 42. 



§ On^pia. 

 P. Brownii ; herbacea, carpellis 5 glaberrimls erectis, foliis utrinque glabns bi- 



ternatis, foliolls ternatim divisis pinnatifidlsve laciniatis, sepalis subrotundis 



convexis petal is subrotundis coriaceis longioribus. 

 P. Brownii. Douglas in Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 27. Torrey and Gray Flora 



of North America, 1. 41. 



Petala circiter sex, coriacea, subrotunda, sanguinea, inargine lutea, 

 sepala breviora. Discus carnosus, elevaius, lobatus. FoUiculi 5, quorum 

 pars tantum perfecta, coriacea, rugosa, Icevia, obovata. Testa seminum 

 sicca, nee succulenta. 



This extremely rare and very curious plant was intro- 

 duced several years ago by the Horticultural Society, to 

 which it was sent by Mr. Douglas. It is a singular instance 

 of a genus hitherto exclusively Asiatic or European, appear- 

 ing in the New World under a form different from its ordi- 

 nary state, and yet as it seems too similar to be separated. 

 Since the discovery of this by Douglas, a second species has 

 been found in Upper California by Nuttall. The two form 

 a section of Pasonia, characterized by short leathery petals, 

 a lobed fleshy disk, and a dry not succulent seed coat. 



Douglas found it near the limits of perpetual snow, on 

 the subalpine range of Mount Hood in North West America ; 

 according to Torrey and Gray it was met with by Nuttall 



* See Botanical Register, fob 1208. 

 June, 1839. m 



