276 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Geiws Petonia. 



fleenshire, where it is still to be found under the name of the 

 Single PcEomj, and the only species with single flowers we ever 

 observed in those parts. 



We attach J. Bauhin's synonym without hesitation ; his de- 

 scription of it, which Ray and succeeding authors have copied, 

 being so applicable : " Folia siquidem quae imis ramis heerent, 

 latiora sunt quam caeterarum, rotundioraque; aversa parte glauca, 

 hirsuta, adversa saturatius virenlia itidemque pilis obsita; siliquae 

 retortae, hirsutie alba totse contectae." 



From analogy we presume it to be a native of the Levant. Its 

 flowers are of a bright but deep rose colour, resembling most 

 those of daurica, and appear very handsome over its abundant 

 dark though glaucous leaves. Morison's figure, No. 3, is so bad 

 that we cannot quote it. 



/S. oxoniensis ; floribus carneis, petalis lacero-crispis. 



P. cretica. Clusius Plant. Rar. p. 281. 



P. folio subtus incano, flore albo vel pallido. C. B. Pinax, p. 323. 



Moris. Hist v. ii. p. 454. 

 P. fcemina flore carneo simplici. Paj-k. Par. p. 342. 

 P. mas major flore incarnato. Besler Eyst. Vern. ordo vi. p. 11. 



This is probably No. 6. Ger. Em. p. 981, as to the description, 

 " in our London gardens bearing flowers of a pale whitish colour, 

 very single, resembling the female wilde Peiony ;" although the 

 figure of No. 6 is that of another species {liumilis). And from 

 Parkinson's notice of it we presume it must have been among the 

 gardens in his days, though no where to be found three years ago 

 in this country but in the Oxford botanic garden, where it seems 

 to have existed unnoticed and unknown since the time of Mori- 

 son, whose description of it is very satisfactory : " quara in horto 

 alimus, cujus folia latiuscula lanugine alba utrinque obsita sunt. 



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