282 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Fceonia. 



of Inimilis: the follicles are of a paler green than in peregrina; 



petals a dark purplish-red, often bifid, or a little lacerated. 



/3. fimhriata; caule vix pllosiusculo, floribus plenis. 



P. flore plcno rubro minore. C. Bauh. Pin. p. 324. 



P. flore pleno rubro, minor. J. Bauh. v. iii. p. 493. Itaii Hist. 



V. i. p. 696. 

 P. foliis diftormiter lobatis pubescentibus. Mill. Fig. of Plants, 



199: mala. 

 P. flore pleno purpurascente papaverine. Moris. Hist. v. ii. p.A53. 



et Sect. xii. fab. l.fig. 17. 

 P. humilis. Willcl. Enum. 572. 

 P. paradoxa fimbriata. Double fringed Pueony. Saline in Hort. 



Trans, v. W. p. 276". 

 Messrs. Lee and Kennedy have long possessed this plant; and 

 Messrs. Loddiges and Son imported it from Holland under the 

 name of the double-purple Pa?ony. It is the only plant among 

 the pubescent species with double flowers. These are of a beautiful 

 purplish crimson, snialler in size, and with the inner petals more 

 linear and divided than those of the double varieties oi P . officinalis, 

 giving it the appearance of a fringed tassel. It accords in every 

 material circumstance with the single-flowered plant. 



13. P^ONIA MOLLIS. 



P. foliolis ovali-lanceolatis planis lobatis imbricatis subtus CEesio- 

 pilosis ; lateralibus subsessilibus; germinibus tomentosis rectis. 



Kaikh Jilrce longs, tuheribus longis desinentes. Caulis pedalis et ultra, rigidus, stric- 

 tus, pilostusculus, dense foliosus. Peiioli l)reves, supra glabri, subtus pilosiusculi ; 

 partiales undiqiie pilosi. Folia dodrantia, insequaliter subtiiternata, complanataj ho- 

 rizontalia, saturate coeruleo-viridia. FoUola lateralia subsessilia extus decurrentia, 

 profunde lobata, latolanceolata, plana, obtusa, congregata seu imbricata, venis fuscis 

 parallelis, subtus dense pilosa, glauca ; supra glabra, nitidiuscula. BraclecB foliaceae, 

 integrae et incisae. Calycis foliola obtusa, exteriora pubescentia, Integra. Germina 

 2.— 3 rectiuscula, adpressa, apice distantia, molliter pubescentia, pilis ferrugineis. 

 Semina tequaliter ovata, rugosiuscula, nitida. Floret a medio ad finem Maii. 



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