280 Mr. Andeeson's Monograph of the Genus Pceonia. 



being nearly a fortnight earlier in flowering. This plant is re- 

 n)arkable at first sight by its general compact bushy habit, and by 

 its broad flat dark glaucous-green leaflets; not yellowish-green 

 nor bordered with red, like the foregoing. 



7. Grevillei. 



Radix praecedenti similis. Caulis bipedalis, glabriusculus. Folia biternata ; foliola pro- 

 funde laciiiiata, valde undulata, interdum tortuosa, angustata, acuta, rugosa, glauca, 

 niargine rubicunda. Calyx glaber ; stigmata acutiuscula; semina rotundata, (Cae- 

 tera ut in var. a.) 



Obtained by Mr. Sabine from the garden of the late Mr. Gre- 

 ville,who cultivated it as a new species, i:)iit whence itoriginally 

 came he could not learn. We ibund the same plant in Messrs. Lee 

 and Kennedy's nursery, without any name; its history is e(|ually 

 ambiguous with the preceding, but it may be supposed to have 

 come from the same quarter. It is conspicuous by its deeply and 

 numerously laciniated leaflets, which are glaucous, very much 

 undulated, and sometimes twisted. It comes into flower rather 

 earlier than the other two ; petals deep crimson, not so dark as 

 those of var. a. 



12. PiEONIA PARADOXA. 



p. foliolis multipartitis obtusis undulatis, subtus glauco-pilosis, 



germinibus adpressis tomentosis. 

 P. promiscua seu neutra. Lobel Ic. 6H3. 

 P. promiscua strictiore folio. J. Bauh. Hist. v. iii. p. 493. 

 P. fcemina altera. C. Bauh, Pin. p. 323. 

 P. byzantina minor. Besl. Hort. Eyst. Vern. ordo vi. p. 1.4. .'' 

 P. promiscua. Ger, Em. p. 982. 5. Raii Hist. v. i. p. 695. 

 P. peregrina. Smith in Rees's Cr/cl. : absque synonymis. 



Radix ut in praecedentibus, tuberibus vero angustioribus et paulo magis sparsis. Caulis vix 

 sesquipedalis, glabriusculus, simplex. Folia biternata, praecedente minora, foliola 

 trilobata, varie et inordinate incisa, nonnimquam ternata. Laciniae saepius bifidae 



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