254 Ml'. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paojiia. 



terraneous caudex of the herbaceous plants, of which it seems to 

 be nothing more than a prolongation, each annual shoot being 

 simple and subtended by numerous vaginal stipula?, which in 

 those rise only to the surface of the ground, and are not wanting 

 in any of the species. The membrane too which envelops the 

 germens, and which some botanists have suspected should re- 

 move this plant to a new genus, is only a more extended example 

 of the truly perigynous crown which surrounds the base of the 

 germens in all the Paeonies. 



The seeds are represented as being black ; we have not seen 

 them matured : its leaves are not shining as in albifloi-a, nor are 

 they totally divested of pubescence. The woolly germens would 

 sufficiently distinguish it from that species, though all the other 

 marks were removed. 



et. papaveracea ; petalis 8 — 13, albis, basi macula purpurea no- 

 tatis. 



P. papaveracea. Bot. Repos. 463. Rees's Cycl. 



Introduced by Sir Abraham Hume, about the year 1806, from 

 China. This should be considered as the type of the species, the 

 other varieties having double flowers. Its capacity to stand the 

 rigour of our climate is not as yet sufficiently tried, being still 

 too rare and valuable to risk with the full experiment ; but we 

 think it will prove to be hardy. Its petals are white, very broad 

 and large, obcordate, with a blotch of deep purple at the base 

 of each. The membrane that surrounds the germens is more en- 

 tire in this than in the other varieties, the united mass of germens 

 is ovato-spherical, and more tapering at the apex than the capsule 

 of the poppy, with only a small orifice at the top to let out the 

 ■stigmas, which are reflexed and form a star of bright purple : these, 



with 



