Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus P<eotna. 263 



P. tciuiifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. p. 748. Gmelin Sib. iv. p. 18ji. 



/. 73. Linn. Fil. Plant. Rar. fasc. i. p. 9. t. 5. Pall. J^<m. ii. 



p. 95. t. 87. Willd. Sp. PL ii. p. 1223. Gcert. Fruct. i. /;, 309. 



/. 65./. 1. Bot. Mag. 926. Bort. Kcw. ed. ii. v. iii. p. 316. 

 P. laciiiiis foliorum lincaribus. Zinn Cat. Got. p. 127. 

 P. hybrida. Pall. Ptoss. ii. p. 94. /. 86. Willd. Sp. PL ii. p. 1223. 



iiarf/x tiiberum fasciculus, surculis repentibus. Caulis sesqulpedalis, valde foliosus, glaber. 

 i^o^;a triternata, multifida, glabra, ad apicem caulis aggregata, quibus flos quasi nidu- 

 latur. FoZioZa liuearia subulata ; radicalianonnunquam lineari-lanceolata; bine P. ^y- 

 brida Pallasii. Calycis foliola glabra, iutegra, iiiteriora orbiculata, mucronulata, exte- 

 riora acuta. Folia apud apicem caulis aggregata. Corolla minima saturate sanguinea. 

 Pelala 8, incurva, obovato-lanceolata, obtusa, apice erosa. Germina 2 — 3 raro 4, recta, 

 approximata, demum patentiuscula, nee revoluta, villis purpureis dense vestita. Stigmata 

 erectiuscula, rubra. Semiiia oblongo-elliptica, iusco-atra, lasvia. Flotet initio MaK. 



Native of the Ukraine, between the Tanais and Volga, on hilly 

 grounds and perpendicular banks of theTerec. Plentiful in tlieTau- 

 rian Chcrsonesus. It first appeared in Zinn's Gottingen Catalogue, 

 published in 1757? and is admitted into the second edition of the 

 Species Pluntarum by Linne, who indulges in a fancy that one might 

 imagine it was a bastard offspring of Pceonia and Adoim apennina. 



The linear leaves are alone sufficient to characterize this spe- 

 cies. The creeping surculi of its roots are also peculiar to it; and 

 the small dark but bright red flower, supported on a very short 

 peduncle and nestled as it were among the finely-divided leaves 

 that crowd around the top of the stalk, together with the purple 

 hairs which cover the germens, all sufficiently distinguish it from 

 any other Pa'ony. It appears to have been introduced into this 

 country by the late Mr. Malcolm, so far back as 1760. 



P. hifbrida of Pallas is not even a permanent variety. The ste- 

 rile or rather the radical leaves in rich ground almost constantly 

 assume a lineari-lanceolate form ; indeed both descriptions of 

 leaves are frequently produced on the same root. We have exa- 

 mined 



