PLATE CCCCLXXXVI. 
PEONIA DAURICA. 
Dauric Peony. 
CLASS XIII. ORDER IL 
POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Many Chives. Two Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Carrx 5-phyllus, Petala 5. Stylus 0. Cap- | Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Pointal none. Cap- 
— 
sulz polyspermz. sules many-seeded, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pzowia foliis pinnatis : foliolis sub-ovatis, glau- Pony with winged leaves: the leaflets are 
‘cis: floribus rubro-purpureis: caulis her- nearly egg-shaped, and glaucous: flowers 
baceus, bipedalis, of a red purple: stem herbaceous, and 
about two feet high. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement and seed-buds, 
- 2. A chive, 
3. The seed-buds as they appear when the seeds are nearly perfect. 
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Tuis fine Pzony is at present a scarce plant ; nor is there any figure of it extant, if not in the Flora 
Russica of Dr. Pallas. The specimen our figure represents was received from Mr. J. Bell, who raised 
it from seed, and with whom it has flowered for the first time in this country. It may with propriety 
be ranked among the most attractive of the herbaceous species, The flowers expand in the early part 
of summer ; and from the cold climate whence it is indigenous, little doubt need be entertained of its 
resisting our winter, if it can but endure the sudden changes of weather to which this island is subject ; 
a transition that frequently proves more fatal to plants the natives of a cold northern clime, than to those 
of southern origin. 
