290 Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Gemis Tceonid. 



P. paradoxa, as such we have referred to his figure, in tlie syno- 

 nyms of the double variety ; and our P. paradoxa 1 have before 

 stated to be in my opinion the P. pcregrina «. of M. De Candolle. 

 The F. laciniata in like manner is founded on a single autho- 

 rity only, that of Willdenow's Enumeratio. Willdcnow's plant 

 came from Siberia; and it niight be suspected that he had got 

 Pallas's P. laciniata, which is the V. anomala of Linnaeus and all 

 subsequent writers, and had erroneously considered it distinct, 

 being misled by the name, but that he describes it " capsulis 

 tomentosis." 'J'his circumstance (since it cannot be admitted that 

 it is another species, or it would have found its way to other col- 

 lections from the Berlin garden,) makes it probable that Willde- 

 now's P. laciniata was only a strong-growing plant of P. teiiui- 

 folia, perhaps in the very state figured by Pallas as P. hi/brida. 

 M. De Candolle has described his P. laciniata with " capsulis to- 

 mentosis patentibus ;" the addition of this latter term not being a 

 part of Willdenow's description. 



North Mimms, 

 20"- December, 1817. 



