264 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 



mined many plants said to be seedlings, but never have discovered 

 any perceptible variation in them. 



5. PiEONIA OFFICINALIS. 



p. foliolis inaequaliter laciniatis glabris, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, 



germinibus rectiusculis tomentosis. 

 P. officinalis. Pall. Ross, pars ii. |j. 93. Reiz. Obs. iii. p. 35. 



Smith Prodr. Flo. Grac. i. p. 36"9. Lamarck et Dccaijd. Flo. 



Franc, v. iv. p. 9 19. Scopoli Cam. v. i. p. 378. Host Syii. 



p. 66. Willd. Sp. PI. V. ii. p. 1221. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. 



j9. 315. Dot. Mag. 1784. 

 P. officinalis «. Lmn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. p. 747- 

 P. communis vel foemina. Baiih. Pht/t. n. 4. Pinax, p. 323. Mo- 



rison PI. Hist. p. 454. 

 P. foemina prior. Dod. Pempt. p. 195. 

 P. foemina vulgatior. Joh. Bauhin. v. iii. p. 492. 

 P. foeminea, &c. Ger. Em. p. 981. Lobcl. Icones, 682. Park. 



Par. p. 343. Rati Hist. v. i. p. 693. 

 P. foemina foliis difformiter lobatis. Mill. Diet. 

 P. rubra flo. simpl. Besler Eyst. ordo vi. p. 15. 

 La Pivoine femelle. Regnault Bot. Blanche, 



Eadicis tuiera obloiiga, obtusa, e fibris dependentia. Caulis simplex, .3 — 4-pedalis, flexuo- 

 sus, glaber, nitidus. Pe/ioZJ glabri, nitidi. ^a:t/Z(B foliorum et folioloiuin fuscse. Folia 

 glabra, interdum tamcn subtus pilosiuscula, ternata. Foliola pinnata seu piniiatifida, 

 interniedio quandoque decurreiite, varie dissecta, bi- seu tri-partita, hinc iiitegra. 

 LacinicE lato-lanceolata;, modo fissae, plaiiae, subcoiicolores. Bractea foliacea, ter- 

 nata vel incisa, talyci approximata. Corolla magna, speciosa. Petala 7 — 8, incurva, 

 obovata. Germina recta 2—3, tomento albo dense tecta, demum ferruginea. Stig- 

 mata semilunaria, fusca, marginibus flavis. Semina magna, ovata, parum corrugata, 

 coeruleo-atra, splendentia. Floret medio ad ftnem Maii. 



Native of the mountainous woods of Helvetia, Provence, Mont- 

 pellier, Dauphine, Piedmont^ Carniola, the Grecian Islands, and 



most 



