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strings: the stalks are green, about two feet and a half high: the 

 leaves composed of several unequal lobes, which are variously- cut 

 into many segments : they are of a paler green than those of the 

 latter sort, and hairy on their under side: the flowers are smaller, 

 and of a deeper purple colour. 



The latter has the roots composed of several oblong knobs hang- 

 ing by strings fastened to the main head: the stems the same height 

 with the preceding: the leaves are composed of several ovate lobes, 

 some of which are cut into two or three segments; they are of a lu- 

 cid green on their upper side, but are hoary on their under: the 

 stems are terminated by large single flowers, composed of five or six 

 large roundish red pelals. 



The flowets in both sorts appear in May, and are natives of seve- 

 ral parts of Europe, as Switzerland, Dauphine, Carniola, Piedmont, 

 Silesia, &c. 



Miller says, that " it is scarcely necessary to observe that the old 

 names of Male and Female have nothing to do here with the sexes, 

 the flowers of both being hermaphrodite." 



There are several subvarieties of the Female Peony with double 

 flowers, differing in- size and colour, cultivated in gardens. The Male 

 Peony also varies with pale, and white flowers, and with larger lobes 

 to the leaves: they also vary much in different countries. 



" There is the Foreign Peony , with a deep-red flower: the roots 

 are composed of roundish knobs, like those of the Female Peony: the 

 leaves are also the same, but of a thicker substance: the stulks do 

 not rise so high: the flowers have a greater number of petals, and 

 appear a little later. It is a native of the Levant. The large double 

 purple Peony is probably a sub-variety of this." 



The Hairy Peony, with a larger double red flower: the roots like 

 the common Female Peony; but the stalks taller, and of a purplish 

 colour: the leaves much longer, with spear-shaped entire lobes: the 

 flowers large, and of a deep red colour. 



The Tartarian, wiih roots composed of oblong fleshy tubers of a 

 pale colour: the stalks about two feet high, pale green: the leaves 

 composed of several. lobes, irregular in shape and size, some having 



