28 POLYANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. P^eonia. 



On Brent downs, Somersetshire. Pluhenet. Plentifully on the 

 top and about the middle of the hill, on Brent downs. Dill, in 

 Linn. Corresp. v. 2. 132. At Babbicombe, near Newton Abbot, 

 Devonshire. Rev. Aaron Neck. On rocks near the sea, at Tor- 

 quay. Dean of Bristol. 1825. 



Shrub. June, July. 



In size and habit like C. Helianthemum, but essentially distinct, 

 though not known in any other part of the world than the places 

 above specified. The stems are hoary with fine, close-pressed 

 hairs. Leaves always revolute ; convex and green on the up- 

 per side, covered with starry hairs, not entangled with each 

 other ; white and densely downy, with similar but entangled 

 hairs, beneath ; the mid-rib very prominent. Stipulas linear- 

 lanceolate, rather acute than blunt, most hairy at the margin, 

 not at all downy. Cal. membranous, with red ribs bearing a 

 very few hairs here and there, the intermediate spaces quite 

 smooth and naked ; the 2 outer leaves linear, channelled, 

 fringed. Pet. white, sometimes crenate ; their claws yellow. 

 Caps, with 3 slight partitions. 



Linnaeus has very incautiou.sly confounded this and C. marifoUus 

 in his Mantissa 2. 145, under the name of C. angUcus. C. apen- 

 ninus more nearly resembles our polifolius ; but differs in its 

 simple pubescence, and hoary cahjx without hairs on the ribs. 



POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 

 270. P^ONIA. Piony. 



Linn. Gen. 273. Juss. 234. Tourn. t. 146. Low. ^ 481. Gccrln. 

 t. G5. 



Nat. Ord. Multisiliquce. l^inn. 26. Raminculacece. Juss. 61. 



Cal. inferior, of 5 roundish, concave, reflexed, unequal, per- 

 manent leaves. Pet. 5, roundish, concave, spreading, 

 contracted at the base, larger than the calyx. Filam. 

 very numerous, capillary, much shorter than the corolla. 

 Anth. terminal, erect, oblong, quadrangular, of 4 cells. 

 Germ, from 2 to 4, 5, or more, sessile, ovate, downy. 

 Styles none. Stigmas oblong, curved, compressed, ob- 

 tuse, coloured. CajJSJiles {follicles) as many as the gcr- 

 mens, ovate-oblong, spreading widely, coriaceous, burst- 



