270 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the. Genus Paotna. 



deling this and P. officinalis as only varieties of the same species, 

 HO two plants in the whole genus being more distinctly separated. 



The leaves of some varieties lately brought from Holland differ 

 in being less or more pitted, but do not display any disposition 

 to intermingle with other species. The leaves and stem are al- 

 ways quite free from pubescence in all our examples; though 

 Ra}', who copies John Bauhin, says that the leaves are "lanugine 

 quadam aversa parte pubescentibus," owing possibly to the care- 

 lessness of old writing. 



Native of mountainous woods in the south of Europe, as in 

 the neighbourhood of Alais in Languedoc ; frequent in Switzer- 

 land, and on the Alps generally : also on Mount Ida and in the 

 island of Zante. Our claim to it as a native of Britain is per- 

 haps but slender. It grows apparently indigenous on a small 

 island in the Severn frith, called the Steep Holmes : and Gerard 

 says that it grew wild in his time near Southfleet in Kent, but 

 his editor Johnson unceremoniously observes that he planted it 

 there himself. 



7. PiEONIA DAURICA. 



p. foliolis distinctis subrotundis undulatis obliquis integriusculis 



glabris, foUiculis patentibus tomentosis. 

 P. daurica. And. Repos. 486. Bot. Mag. 1441. Hort. Kew. 



ed. ii. V. iii. p. 317- 

 P. triternata. Pall. Ind. Plant. Taur. in Nov. Act. Petrop. v. x. 



p. 312. Georgi Beschr. de.i Russ. Reichs. v. iii. p. 1050.'' 



Radicis tulera crassa, oblonga, sessilia, fibrisque adnata. Caulis sesqui- bipedalis, sub- 

 erectus, rigidus, flavo-virens, glaber. Folia figura praecedentis, persistentia, apice 

 tandem sphacelata. Foliola insequaliter rotunda, raro lobata, obliqua, valde undulata, 

 supra flavo-virentia, subtus glauca, venis reticulata. PetioU abbreviati. Calyatjuliola 

 glabra, duo exteriora foliacea, reliqua orbiculata, cava. Corolla rosea, petalis circi- 

 ter octo obtusis. Germina 2—4, flavescentia, dense tomentosa, demum patentia, vix 

 reflexa. Stigmata rubra, recurvata. Semina fusco-nigra, sphaerica, reticulata. Floret 

 a medio ad iinem Maii. 



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