27- Mr. Andep son's Monograph of the Genus Paojiia. 



Radicis lubera numerosa, parva, elliptica. Ciadls scsqui-bipedalis, flcxuosus, angulatii=, 

 glaber. Pe</o/igIabri, partialis niedius lateralibus diiplo longior. FoZ/a biternata vel 

 ternato-trifida, valde et insqualiter iiicisa seu pinnatifida, supra saturate viridia, rugo- 

 siuscula, glabra, margine rubieunda : subtus glauca, villis obsoletis denium evaiiescen- 

 tibus tecta, venis prominentibus glabriusculis ; laciniae lanceolatae, apice attcnuata?, 

 acuta", iucurvo-canaliculatae, undulatse, transverse reflexse. Pedunculi sulcati, elon- 

 gati. BractecB (una vel altera) integral seusimpliciter fissse, calyci approximatje. Ca- 

 lyx glaber, foliis exterioribus planis, iuterioribus concavis muticis. Pelala 6 — 8, 

 eroso-marginata, parum laciniata, purpureo-sanguinea. Germina 2, raro 3, priii;;) 

 recta, leviter pubescentia, denique patentiuscula, glabra; folliculi niaturi vix refle\i. 

 Stigmata persistentia, elougata, erecta, apice reflexa (hujus specie! siguum prsestaiuis- 

 siinuni). Semina anguloso-ovata, atro-purpurea, Isvia, s])lendeiitia. Floret initio 

 Mali. 



Tliis species may be recognised with tolerable precision as that 

 mentioned by Cliisiiis, an acnte observer and original writer, who 

 described a great number of plants then unknown, which he olj- 

 served in the countries visited by him towards the latter end of the 

 sixteenth century. He discovered it in Spain ; which is happily 

 confirmed by our countryman Dr. Shuter lately returned from 

 that country, who says he saw P.humUis growing abundantly on 

 the mountains. It seems indeed to belong exclusively to Spain, 

 unless it be what DeCandolle considers a variety of P. peregrina, 

 observed by him on the Serane mountains with smooth gcrmens, 

 and the segments of the leaves "plus pales et plus allonges," which 

 we think highly probable. P. hisitanica of Miller, " with flowers 

 of an agreeable sweet scent," cannot be reconciled with this or 

 with any species we know. We suspect that Willdenow did not 

 know this species, otherwise he could not have mistaken P.para- 

 doxa var. /S. for a double-tlowering variety of it in his Enuin. Plan- 

 tarum. 



'J'he plant which we describe is probably an offspring from the 

 seeds obtained from Spain through Clusius : how or when it came 



into 



