274 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 



a species than to describe it. Being satisfied that the}' are distinct, 

 we have endeavoured to give the best distinguishing characters 

 that a close examination of three seasons has aflbrded us. 



Our present plant Me do not hesitate to refer to that which 

 Clusius obtained from Constantinople ; as the description which 

 he and the succeeding writers give of it agrees with ours, and it 

 also comes from the same quarter. 



It is remarkable for the elegant stateliness of its habit. Each 

 stalk accompanied by its horizontal leaves, diminishing as they 

 ascend, and terminated by its flower, (which is rather smaller than 

 is usual in the genus,) supported on a long peduncle, exhibits 

 somewhat of a pyramidal figure. Its leaflets are constantly more 

 or less longitudinally iuflexed or concave: in this respect it re- 

 sembles the last described, but differs from it in the leaflets being 

 broad and obtuse. The follicles are less pubescent than those of 

 the three following species, but more so than those of the pre- 

 ceding; they are very large, and at maturity diverge widely, but 

 do not become so much recurved as those of P. arietina. We 

 have only observed two varieties. 

 «. PaUasii; folioli's anguste oblongis. 



Seeds of this plant were received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy 

 from Pallas, probably from the Crimea, where he spent the latter 

 years of his life. The name he gave it, if any, has been lost ; they 

 called it bi/zantina : its flower has a fine deep rose colour, in 

 shape and appearance not unlike that of Papaver somniferum; 

 the seedlings came up without exhibiting any apparent variation. 

 /3. elatior ; foliolis lato-oblongis. 



First observed in the nursery of Messrs. Chandler and Buck- 

 ingham, who believe they got it from Holland. I(; differs from 

 the preceding in the leaves being somewhat broader, and the 



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