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ever, they have been very double, with occasional exceptions. 

 The Messrs. Loddiges, who published a figure of this variety, 

 from a plant in their possession, state that they received it origi- 

 nally from Mr. Hibbert, and that it always produces semi-double 

 flowers. Until Mr. Sabine's paper appeared, the two kinds 

 above spoken of were always considered identical. There is a 

 variety, most common in English collections, with semi-double 

 flowers; but when we take into consideration the fact, that in 

 some seasons Mr. Hibbert's plant produced all semi-double ones, 

 it is scarcely worth while to describe them as distinct. 



We hope soon to see this variety in bloom: we saw a small 

 l^lant, last fall, in the collection of Mr. Wilder, that showed a 

 weak bud, which we presume did not expand, or we should 

 have heard of it at the time. In the fine collection of plants of 

 Col. Perkins, at Brookline, is a plant which was imported direct 

 from China: it has flowered once or twice, though we have never 

 had the pleasure of seeing it in bloom: we have understood, how- 

 ever, that it is the rosea. We observed it once in bud, but we 

 are inchned to the opinion that it is some other variety. It is 

 certainly different from Banksice; perhaps the P. Moutan var. 

 Rawesii of Sabine. 



Pddonia Moutan ;)apaveracea var. Humei. — A variety slightly 

 different from Banksice. It was formerly considered identical 

 with it, and we have some doubts about its possessing a claim to 

 a distinct name. A figure of it is published in the Botanical 

 Register, t. 379. Mr. Sabine states that it is " very near" 

 BanksioB, only differing in having longer and thicker peduncles, 

 blooming a fortnight earlier, and more abundant in petals. It 

 was imported in 1817, and presented to Sir Abraham Hume. 



PiBonia Moutan ;?apaveracea var. Rawesw. — This variety 

 was brought from China, in 1820, by Capt. Rawes, from whence 

 it derives its name. The plant was given by this gentleman to 

 Thomas Cary Palmer, Esq., of Bromley, in Kent, in whose gar- 

 den it produced a premature bloom in 1825. The bracts are 

 longer and more conspicuous than in any of the other varieties. 

 The calyx leaves, instead of enclosing the bud in a globular form, 

 are twisted up so as to come to a point at the top. The petals 

 are pale, very slightly tinged with pink, and have a very satiny 

 appearance: they are about twelve in number, and much lacerat- 

 ed at the edges; the flowers, when fully expanded, measure about 

 seven inches across; the filaments are purple, and the anthers 

 clustered closely round the germens, which are six in number. 

 The foliage is stated to resemble an herbaceous pseony; the leaves 

 are smaller and darker than any of the other kinds; they are simi- 

 lar in form, though the terminating foliole is deeply divided, often 

 unequally, and sometimes the upper leaflet is cleft to its base. 

 The peculiar characteristic in this variety, of the calyx leaves en- 



