268 Mr. A'SDEUso's's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 



dons of Europe have l)P('n enriched with it, thcreff)re, upwards of 

 two centuries. 



£. cariicscciis; floribus plenissimis saturate roseis. Double flesh- 

 coliiured Paeony. 



P. flore pleno incarnato. Motis. Fltmt. Hist. v. ii. p. 455. 

 P. officinalis carnescens. Double flesli-eoloured Ptvony. Sabiite 

 in tlort Trans, v. ii. p. 275. 



This beautiful variety is not of so old an introduction as the 

 preceding. Morison gives us the first account of it, in 16'99- 

 The fiower opens of a fine rose colour, and afterwards becomes 

 pale fiesli ; it is not so common as the preceding, but never- 

 theless is ton well known among tlic gardeners to require any 

 further description. 



^. albicans; floribus plenissimis roseis. Double white Paeony. 

 P. fcemina polyanthos flore albo. Tabern. Ic. 785. Ger. Em. 982. 

 P. albo flore pleno, sive &c. Joh. Bank. v. iii. p. 494. 

 P. foemina flore pleno albicante. Park. Par. p. 3A2 & 343. /. 4. 

 P. foeliiina flore albo j)leno. Moris. Plant. Hist. v. ii. p. 455. 

 P. officinalis albicans. Double white Pueony. Sabine in Hort. 

 Trans, v. ii. p. '^7 5. 



Tabernaemontanus records this variety in 1590; it therefore must 

 have come into notice nearly about the same period as the double 

 red. 'J he flower of this bursts forth of a pale pink, and at length 

 becomes almost quite white ; is very common along with the dou- 

 ble red in most of the old gardens, from which even neglect and 

 bad treatment will not banish them. > 



6. PiEONIA COKALLINA. 



P. foliolis distinctis ovatis planiusculis glabris, intermedio sub- 

 lobato, folliculis recurvatis tomentosis. 



P. CO- 



