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



Great Berkhainpstead in Hertfordshire, where it possibly had re- 

 mained undisturbed many years. The flowers are precisely of the 

 same colour with those of the common doulile-red, but the petals 

 expand a few days earlier. The leaves are less waved. The petals 

 of all the single-flowered varieties are more inflexed than those 

 of the pubescent species, being formed into the shape of a cup, 

 contracted at the mouth. An abundant supply, of plants of this 

 variety, has been imported from Holland since the peace, not 

 differing materially from Mr. Sabine's plant. The figure in the 

 Botanical Magazine was taken from one of those. 



j8. 7-osea ; floribus saturate roseis, caulibus erectis. 



This variety was observed by Mr, Sabine in the Oxford botanic 

 garden, along with the plant that follows. We cannot obtain any 

 account of their history : they have in all probability been very 

 old tenants of that garden ; perhaps since the days of Morison, in 

 the latter end of the seventeenth century; nor do they seem to have 

 found their way out of it, till Mr. Sabine was obligingly presented 

 with roots of them by Professor Williams. 



This has very broad undulated and obtuse leaflets, of a dark 

 hue, tinged with red on the edges, and with a few slight hairs on 

 the ribs of the under surface. Flowers of a pleasant rose colour ; 

 germens 2 — 3, densely tomentose, diverging at the apex. Stem 

 erect, as tall as var. a, flowering a fortnight earlier, about the 

 middle of May. 

 y. hlanda; floribus saturate roseis, caulibus laxis. 



Obtained, as before mentioned, from the Oxford garden. The 

 leaflets of this variety are likewise broad, though less so than the 

 preceding; also much less undulated, and of a peculiarly pale 

 green colour for a plant of this species : and, like those of the 

 rosea, furnished with a iew hairs on the back of the leaf. Stalks 

 spreading ; petioles reddish ; flower of same colour and same time 



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