34 NAT. ORDER. MULTISIL JdOiB. 



m deserted fields and waste lands, producing its flowers in May and 

 June. 



P(mn^ an ancient celebrated Physician, was the first to use this 

 in medicine. The Greek legend adds, that he used it to cui-e Pluto 

 of a wound inflicted by Hercules. 



Paonia coralUna. Coralline or Male-Pseony. This species rises 

 from one to two feet high ; carpels tomentose ; segments of the leaves 

 ovate, entire, glabrous ; the leaves are very broad and of a dark 

 shining gi"een color ; flowers crimson. Native of many parts of Eu- 

 rope, France, Greece, Siberia, and some parts of the United States ; 

 generally to be found on the rocky clefts of steep mountains. It 

 flowers in May and June. 



PcBonia f estiva. Common or Handsome PjBony. This species 

 rises about two feet high ; carpels tomentose, erect ; segnients of 

 the leaves unequally jagged, smooth, with the divisions crowded, 

 oblong-lanceolate. Native of many parts of Europe, in mountains, 

 woods ; in France, Switzerland, Greece, Crete, etc. It flowers in 

 May and June. 



Paionia paradoxa. Paradoxical Pseony. This species rises 

 from one to two feet in height ; the carpels downy and straight ; seg- 

 ments of the leaves many-parted, blunt and somewhat waved, glau- 

 cous and hairy imderneath ; flowers of a violent crimson color, with 

 obovate, jagged petals, which are often bifid. Native of Spain and 

 the south of France, on mountains. Flowers in June. 



PcBonia puhens. Downy Pseonia. This species rises from two to 

 three feet high ; the leaves biternate ; leaflets lanceolate, accumina- 

 ted, densely clothed with soft pubescence beneath ; ovaries clothed 

 with whitish tomentum, each crowned by a somewhat orbicidar stig- 

 ma ; stem, petioles, and pedimcles somewliat hairy ; flowers large, 

 dark-pm-ple , anthers yellow. Native of Siberia. It flowers in May 

 and June. 



