286 ilf;-. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus. Pteonia. 



Kewensis, 2d edit, in this species is only to the var. /3, as if that 

 alone was noticed therein ; whereas P. albijlora of the Uortus Kew- 

 ensis is referable to the species itself; and the variety figured iu 

 the Par. Lond. is the second variety /3. of P. albiflora in the Hor- 

 ius Kezvensis. M. De Candolle has no references to the figures in 

 the Botanical Magazine or the Botanical Register ; and I conjec- 

 ture that he is not acquainted with more than the one double va- 

 riety, P. albiflora jS. Whitleji, to the figure of which in Andr. Bot. 

 Repos. he refers. 



Our two species P. anomala and P. tennifolia agree with those 

 of M. De Candolle; but he has kept as a distinct species P. /;;/- 

 bridu, adding to the statements of PalJas, the authority of Dr. 

 Fischer, who in his correspondence has assured him he found it 

 growing on the northern side of Mount Caucasus, and that it was 

 not an hybrid plant, but a genuine species. Being fully satis- 

 fied thatPallas's plant, figured and described in the Flora Rossica, 

 and which was from a cultivated specimen, is only P. tenuifolia in 

 a state it sometimes assumes, but different from what it usually 

 puts on, I must still continue my opinion of their identity. In 

 Dr. Fischer's Catalogue of the Garden at Gorinki near Moscow, 

 printed in 1808, he does not enumerate P. hjjbrida. Should this 

 plant, however, after more investigation, prove distinct from 

 P. tenuifolia, I shall rejoice in the circumstance, as our list of spe- 

 cies of this charming genus will thereby be increased ; but if 

 P. hijbrida be distinct, it cannot be set down as one now culti- 

 vated in this country. 



P. officinalis, on the authority of several French authors, has 

 been considered hitherto a native of different parts of France : it 

 «eems from the personal observation of M. De Candolle, most 

 probable that other species have been mistaken for this ; and I 

 should not be surprised, if subsequent examination of specimens 



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