Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 277 



Flores simplices prinio emergentes, siibcarnci, deinde in albos 

 transnuitantur." Mr. Sabine was indebted to the liberality of 

 Professor Williams for roots of it from, the Oxford botanic gar- 

 den. 



From Clusius \vc learn that this is a native of valleys on the 

 highest inountains in Crete; which its habit confirais, having all 

 that woolly-like softness in its young stalks and leaves so peculiar 

 to the plants of that island. If it be P. ochranthemos Camerarii, 

 it has been found in Navarre ; but this last authority is not at all 

 conclusive. 



This is among the earliest of Paeonies ; comes out of the ground 

 of a pale glaucous green colour, destitute of the ruddy tint so 

 common in the genus. Petals of a beautiful pale blush colour, 

 crisp, and lacerated in a greater than usual degree. Follicles 

 almost reHexed when ripe, less woolly and of a lighter colour 

 than those of var. «. Roots of a Paeony have been imported by 

 Messrs. Chandler and Buckingham from Holland which prove 

 to be this plant. 



11. P^ONIA PEREGRINA. 



p. foliolis tripartito-laciniatis integrisque ovato-lanceolatis plani- 

 usculis subtus pilosis, germinibus tomentosis rectis. 



P. pert'grina. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. p. 315. De Cand. Flor. 

 Franc, v. v. p. 643. 



P. peregrina flore coccineo. Besler Eyst. Vern. ordo vi. p. Q. 



P. peregrina foliis difFormiter lobatis &c. Mill. Diet. ed. viii. 3. 



This species is involved in much obscurity among the old au- 

 thors ; and since it has been restored by modern writers, no de- 

 tailed description of it has yet been published. For several years 

 successively we have examined three plants, each of them dif- 

 fering considerably from the other, and they prove to retain 



unchanged 



