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BROWNS PEONY 



Paeo'nia brow'nii 



Flowers large (% to 1% in. broad), soli- 

 tary, terminal 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 5 or 6, 

 green or purplish, rounded, cupped, 

 overlapping, persistent 



Petals 5 to 10, dull-brownish, red, 

 scarcely longer than the sepals, rounded, 

 thick, leathery 



Stamens numerous, on a fleshy, many- 

 lobed disk surrounding the seed-produc- 

 ing organs (pistils) 



Pistils 2 to (mostly) 5, their stalks 

 (styles) short or absent 



Leaves divided into linear-oblong to 

 spatula-shaped lobes, thick, smooth, 

 pale green or covered with a bluish or 

 whitish, waxy bloom 



Stems fleshy, smooth, 8 to 24 in. high, 

 erect or ascending when young but 

 bending over in age with the seed pods 

 resting on ground 





Roots woody, thickened 



Seed pods (follicles) smooth, broadly 

 oblong, up to IK in. long, leathery, 

 several- to many-seeded, pale or dark- 

 colored when ripe 



