Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 279 



his description of which, under P. altera, accords with the pre- 

 sent plant : it may therefore be considered as a native of tiie Le- 

 vant. If our quotation from Morison be correct, it must have 

 been an old tenant of our gardens, although it is not now com- 

 monly to be seen. Our plant was oljtained from Kew, the same 

 from whence tlic drawing was taken for the Botanical Maa-azine. 



This plant is remarkable for the pale grass-green colour of its 

 leaves, which Clusius and Morison both take notice of; these are 

 much divided, and covered underneath with white hairs. It 

 conies into flower a little later than arietina, from which it differs 

 in the leaflets Ijeing more obtuse at the base, seldom decurrent, 

 in the whole plant being considerably smaller, and in the germen* 

 bein" straio;ht and erect. 



If the oblong shape of the seeds be a permanent character, it 

 alone would be sufficient to distinguish it as a separate species. 



/3, cowpacta. 



Radicis tubera minora qnam a. Caulk sesquipedalis. Folia biteinata, saturate viridTa, 

 lato-ovata, plana uec undulata, minime rugosa, crebre laciniata, laciniis apite obtu- 

 sissimis ; I'oliola lateialia trilohata seu teiiiata, conferto-inibricata. Calyx basi pilo- 

 siusculus ; foliola exteriora frondosa, incisa. Germina duo. Semina rotundata, nigra,, 

 laevia, spiendeiitia. (Caetera ut in prKcedente.) 



Found in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy under the 

 name of anomala : but we are unable to obtain any account of 

 its origin ; nor can any notice of it be discovered among the au- 

 thors, only that, as it corresponds sufficiently with De Candolle'* 

 description, and having traced the foregoing plant to Constan- 

 tinople, we might conjecture that this conies from the south of 

 France, it is probably a distinct species. It differs from para- 

 doxa, which it much resembles, in the fissures of the leaves beino- 

 deeper though nearly equally obtuse, petals entire, calyx pu- 

 bescent, and germens scarcely ever more than tw^o, besides its 



being 



