Mr. Andkuson's Monograph of the Genus Fteonia. 273 



into this country is uncertain ; possibly from tlie Dutch, who seem 

 to have retained a taste for Paeonies long after they had got out 

 of repute in this country. We found it in the nursery of Messrs. 

 Chandler and Buckingham, at Vauxhall, who do not know from 

 whence they obtained it. The figure in the Botanical Magazine 

 is taken from their plant. 



It is characterized by narrower, more subdivided and smoother 

 leaves than those of any other species in the present subdivision. 

 It differs too from the following in its smooth follicles, and from 

 it and all other known species in the stigmas being elongated and 

 almost upright, resembling styles ; an important character, which 

 Retz in his description, otherwise excellent, has altogether over- 

 looked. 



9. P^XONIA DECORA. 



P. foliolis tripartito-laciniatis oblongis obtusis canaliculatis sub- 

 tus pilosis, germinibus pubescentibus patentibus, stigraati- 

 bus recurvatis. 



P. byzantina prior. Cltis. Hist. p. 279. 



P. peregrina flore saturfe rubente. Bauh. Pinax, 324. Raii Hist. 

 V. i. p. 696. Moris. Hist. v. ii. p. 455. 



p. foemina byzantina. Park. Par. p. 342 & 343. t.2? 



Radix praecedentis, tuberibus tamen paullo majoribus. Caulis erectus, bi- tri-pedalis, gla- 

 ber. Folia bilernata, caulina horizontalia, parum reflexa. Foliola (intermedium 

 trilobum) lateralia sub-decurrentia, hinc interdum laciniata, oblonga, obtusiuscula, 

 longitudinaliter canaliculata seu inflexa, minime undulata, glauca, non nitida, vix ru- 

 gosa, margiiie rubicunda, subtus, ut et petioli partiales, parum pilosa. Pedunculi 

 elongati, glabri. Calyx praecedentis. Petala circiter octo, parva, angusta, margine 

 crispa, saturate kermesina. Germina 2 — 3, suberecta, pube albido laeviter tecta, de- 

 mum patentissima, rubicunda. Stigmata lunata, pallide-rubra. Semina ovata, atro- 

 purpurea, ]aevia, splendentia. Floret ad finem Maii. 



This and the three succeeding species are nearly allied to each 



other : it is, however, frequently a much easier task to determine 



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