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



unchanged their respective habits. It is not possible, however, 

 in the present state of our information, for us to pronounce 

 whether these be specifically distinct or not; and we deem it 

 expedient, in order to pave the way for a subsequent decision 

 on this point, to give a separate description of each, as we have 

 observed it. 



P. peregrina, De Candolle informs us, is a native of the moun- 

 tains of Provence and Languedoc, chiefly near Montpellier ; also 

 abundant on the mountains La Serane and Pic St. Loup, and in 

 the forest of Valene ; but which of our plants, (or whether all 

 three together) is intended by him, unfortunately his defective 

 description denies us the means of judging. It also belongs to 

 the Levant, as will afterwards appear. Bulliard, vol. iii. p. 300, 

 we think refers to it; but his description is bad, and his figure 

 worse. 



«. hyzantina. 



P. peregrina. Pot. Mag. 1050. 



P. byzantina altera. Clus. Hist. 279» 



P. peregrina flore dilute rubente. C. B. Pinax, p. 324. 



p. pomi aurantii colore. Morison Hist. v. ii. p. 455 ; exclus. syn. 



Radicis tulera fibris brevibus adnata, numerosa, teretia, oblonga. Caulis bipedalis et 

 ultra, erecto-flexuosiis, pilis albis tectus. Folia biternata, Ixte seu dilute viridia, pe- 

 tiolis glabriusculis. Foliolum intermedium trilobatum, raro ternatum, hinc varie et 

 profunde incisum seu pinnatifidum, basi decurrens. Lateralia Integra nonnunquam 

 bilobata, basi obtusiuscula. Laciniae planiusculae tamen subundulatse, ovatx, obtusi- 

 uscuIk, minus rugosae, sinubus rubentibns; subtus cano-pilosae, supra glabrae, sed 

 non nitidae. BractecB frondosse, integrae, ealyci approximatae. Calyc'is foliola exte- 

 riora bracteis non distinguenda, inferiora obtusa, glabriuscula, margine rubicunda. 

 Fetala S, integriuscula, obovata, apice erosa, kermesina. Germina 2, rarissime 3, ca- 

 no-tomentosa, primo congesta demum divergentia, tripio minora quam P. arietince. 

 Semina ovato-oblonga, acuta, nigra, lasvia, splendentia. Floret medio Mali. 



Clusius received seeds of a Paeony from Constantinople in 1588; 



his 



