Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Pceonia. 271 



We believe this to be a discovery of Pallas, and that it is P. tri- 

 iernaia of his 'I'our, and of Georgi's Description of the Russian 

 Empire published at Koenigsberg in 1800. The late Mr. Bell 

 received seeds of it from Pallas prior to the year 1790: it is said 

 to be a native of Siberia, but its native habitat is not precisely 

 known. 



'J'hough in general habit a good deal resembling P. corallina, it 

 is nevertheless essentially distinct from that species, in having its 

 leaves always rounded, partially cordate, oblique, and much un- 

 dulated; whereas those of the former are more or less pointed 

 and nearly flat : the spherical, brownish-black, reticulated seeds, 

 and the yellow tint of its leaves, stalks, and germens, would other- 

 Avise characterize it. 



Its leaves are disposed to wither at th6 points and to remain 

 longer on the stalks than those of the others. Its flower is of a 

 pleasant pale rose colour. Among seedlings it is seen to vary in 

 the degree of undulation of its leaves, but retains its essential 

 character throughout. 



8. PiEONIA nuMitis. 



P. foliolis tripartito-compositislanceolatis acutiscanaliculatis sub- 



villosis, germinibus rectis glabriusculis, stigmatibus erectis. 

 P. humilis. Retz. Obs. iii. p. 35. Bot. Mag. 1422. Smith in Rees's 



Cycl. llort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. p. 316. 

 P. hispanico semine nata. Clus. Hist. v. i. p. 279. 

 P. tenuis luciniata &c. Bauh. Pin. p. 323. 4. Morison Hist. v. ii. 



p. 455. 8. 

 P. foemina pumila. Ger. Em. p. 982. 6, quoad Iconera. 

 P. foemina hispanica pumila. Park, Herb. 1379« Raii Hist. v. i. 



p. 694. 



Radicis 



