| PLATE CCCCLXIII. 
PHONIA PAPAVERAC EA, 
Poppy-like Peony. 
CLASS XL ORDER VI. 
‘POLYANDRIA HEXAGYNIA. Many Chives. Six Pointals. 
‘ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
ey canst Sitting Petala 5. Styli 0. Capsule | ‘Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5 
Pointal none, Cap-- 
__ Polysperme. sules many-seeded. 
ie SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
| -caule elton ramoso : folia alter- Pzony with a shrubby stem branching beneath : 
= a6 natim bipinnata,- subtus glauca: petiolis 
__ Tongjs, canalictlatis, amplexicaulibus : flo- 
ribus semi-duplicibus, albis, ad basin ele- 
_ ganter purpureo radiatis: capsula orbicu- 
lata, continens sex ——- in quibus 
leaves alternately two-winged, and glaucous 
beneath, with long footstalks, channelled, 
and embracing the stem. Flowers semi-- 
‘double, white, but elegantly radiated at the 
base with a purple colour ; capsule orbicular, 
singulis sunt duo semina containing six cells, with two seeds in each. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
: 1. The seed-vessel, : 
me 2, The same cut transversely, 
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For this beantiful species of Pzeonia lection at - 
we are indebted to Lad 4 in whose select co 
Te Wonnley-bury, Herts, it peta for the first time in this pe hen we figured the et 
ts “i Spe little th ught of having so soon to compare it with ‘a rival of such m nitude, of 
‘fhe pat teat The bright radiated purple at the base is a great relief to the surrounding wh Oe of 
“e ae at would ee ee tand in much greater need of the assistance of art for a pr 
nitaetive would una voidably i injure their deli The more we become eae "a a 
, matic Sten the Bester er we — we find attached to it, which appears to o defy gue 
one fe cies Digynia, or two pointals, up to six or more ° 
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es er oe oe lin Poppy, and from whence we wn Sts an 
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