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PiEONIA* albiflc5ra ; var. Pottsii. 

 Potts'a Chinese Pceomj. 



POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. R anuncl'lace.^ Jiiss. \ Poeoniacea; De Cand. — {Intro- 

 duction to the natural system of Botany, p. 6.) 

 P^ ONI A.— Supra, vol. 'l . fol. 42. 



Garden Vauiety. 



This splendid plant originated in China, from which 

 country it was brought in 1822, to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, by the late Mr. John Potts, after whom Mr. Sabine, 

 then Secretary to the Society, named it. 



It is by far the handsomest of the varieties of P. albi- 

 flora, and, indeed, of the whole genus. At present it is 

 extremely scarce ; but it multiplies as freely as the other 

 kinds, and will, no doubt, be soon more common. It 

 flowers rather before P. albiflora fragrans and Humei, and 

 later than P. albiflora Whitleii. 



J. L. 



* Named after the physician Paeon, who is said to have employed the 

 herb with success. Pliny's description is unusually intelligible, and leaves 

 no doubt that the plant of the ancients is the same as that of the moderns. 



