288 Mr, ANDr.r.soN's Monograpli of the Genus Pcconia. 



liave quoted as referable to P. arktina (B. Oxonicnsis, make one of 

 lijs unknown Pteonies. 



The next species, P. pcregrina of our paper, I cannot refer to 

 that, to M'hich the same name is applied by M. De Candollein his 

 present work; relying on the reference in his Flore Fraiicaisc, to tlie 

 figure in the Bot. Mag., we had considered the P. ;;c7'eg;7«a of liis 

 Mork as our species ; but in the Si/siema Naturale Regiii Vegetabilis 

 . the P. pcregrina of the Hort. Kcw. and of the Bot. Mag. (of tlie 

 identity of which plant we are quite certain) is made the variety y. 

 of his species ; and this variety must hereafter be referred to as a 

 synonym of our P. pcregrina a. B)/zaniina : witli our two other va- 

 rieties of P. pcregrina, viz. conipacta and Grcvillci, I must suppose 

 M. De Candoile to be unacquainted ; it then remains forme to find 

 a place for the varieties a. and /3. of his P. pcregrina in our arrange- 

 ment. We have concluded that our P. paradoxa is the P. pro- 

 miscua of the old authors, of Lobcl, (Jerrard, and John Buuhin. 

 To this plant oj" these writers, as well as to the P. altera sive 

 Qicutra of Caspar Bauhin, we on examination of the living plant 

 referred that species. M. De Candoile, with his plant (a native of 

 France, found by himself,) before him, has referred it to the same 

 authors: our description of the plant exactly accords wilh his, 

 and particularly agrees in the circumstance of its low growth, 

 'j'he only difference which prevents my coming to a decided con- 

 clusion in the identity of the two is, that M. De Candoile, in his 

 specific character, has " capsulis tomentosis basi erectis apiee di- 

 rcrgcntibits," whihit the corresponding part of our specific charac- 

 ter is " germinibus adpressis tomentosis," the divergence of the 

 germcns being one of the points by wliich our P. pcregrina is di- 

 stinguished from P. paradoxa. Notwithstanding this difficidly, I 

 think it will turn out that our P. paradoxa is the P. pcregrina a,, of 

 INL De Candoile; but we must M'ait for specimens or plants from 



France 



