86 LAWSON : REVISION OF THE 



G-eoi-gia and the "Western States.— Torres Sr Grcvij. Obviously very rare in Canada ; the 

 only Canadian specimens I have seen are those of Dr. Maclagan from Cayuga. Said by 

 Wood to grovp in iipland woods ; by Gray, in rich woods. Maine and Vermont to "Wis- 

 consin and southward. — Gray, Man. 



Cultivated in England in 1*732 by James Sherard, M.D. 



aenus XVI.— PJÎONIA, Limiœus. 



Beutham and Hooker, Grenera Plantarum, I., p. 10. 



One species. 



1. — P^ONiA Brownii, Douglas. 



Herbaceous. Leaves thick, biternate, the leaflets ternately and pinnatifidly lobed, 

 o-labrous, glaucous beneath. Petals scarcely longer than the sepals, leathery, dark red. 

 Follicles three to five, smooth. 



PcEonia Broivnii. Douglas, in Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 2*7. Torr. & Gray, FL, I., p. 41. 

 Bot. Reg., ser. 2, t. 30. Brewer & "Watson, Bot. Calif, I., p. 18. Wats., Bibl. Index, I., p, 

 15. Macoun, Cat., No. *7'7. 



P. Californica. Nuttall, in Torr. & G-r., Fl. N. A., I., p. 41. 



Near the confines of perpetual snow, on the sub-alpine range of Mount Hood, North- 

 West America, 1826, fl. June, July. — D. Douglas. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am. Moxmt Hood is laid 

 down in Hooker's map as in lat. 45° N. ; long. 121" W. ; and at a distance of about 150 

 miles from the Pacific Coast. East of the Blue Mountains of Oregon, not in sub-alpine 

 situations. — Nuttall, in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. San Bernardino to Vancouver and western 

 Utah, but rare east of the Sierra Nevada ; this plant endures a great range of station and 

 climate, from wet to very dry soils, and from the hot plains of Southern California to near 

 the confines of perpetual snow on the mountains. — Brewer 4" Watson. 



This species is not known in cultivation. 



