I. RANUNCULA‘CER : XANTHORHI Za, 1g 
Gar, 2d ser., 238.) that P.M. papaveracea appears to be really 
the normal form of the species, as the late Mr. George Anderson 
suggested in his paper on the subject in the Linnean Transactions, 
vol. xii. 
& P.M. 2 Bénksii Andrews. Bot. Rep., t. 448. ; 
Bot. Reg., 379.; Bot. Mag., t. 1154. ; and 
our jig. 30.—Flowers double. Petals slightly 
tinged with blush, becoming nearly white 
at the edges, marked at the base with pur-, 
plish red. In the centre of the flower are § 
some elongated petals, which sometimes 
appear to rise from amongst the germens. 
Cultivated in 1787. 
Cther Varieties. Upwards of twelve are described 
in the first edition of this work, and the number is 
continually increasing, in consequence of cross fe- °° Peénia Mortan Banksii. 
cundation with one another, and with the herbaceous species. They are all 
very beautiful, and well deserving of cultivation. 
The Pxdnia Modtan, in a sheltered situation, will attain the height of from 
6 ft. to 10 ft. in ten years: and no plant can be a more gorgeous ornament 
of the garden than such a bush, abounding as it does in leaves striking from 
their branched character and numerous segments, and in very magnificent 
flowers of extraordinary size; both leaves and flowers being produced early 
in the spring. On its first importation, this plant was grown in sandy peat; 
but it has since been found to thrive best in deep rich loamy soil. An 
open situation is preferable, both on account of maturing the wood and leaves, 
and for displaying the flowers to advantage ; but the plant must be sheltered 
from the cold spring winds, unless it is intended to cover it, when it is in 
tlower, with a movable glass or canvass case. The protection given to this 
plant is necessary, not so much to prevent it from being injured during winter 
(for it will bear the winters of Paris without any protection, if the wood has 
been properly ripened), as to protect the tender leaves and flowers when they 
first appear, in April and May, from being blackened by the frost. Seeds are 
frequently produced from which new varieties are raised, and any variety 
may be increased by division of the root; by grafting on the tubers of herba- 
ceous ponies, any time from the middle of September to the middle of . 
March ; by budding, a mode said to be practised by the Chinese ; by layers, 
which is the most general mode; by ringing a branch beneath each bud, and 
then pegging down the braich, and covering it with soil; and by cuttings. 
The details of these modes of propagation will be found in the first edition 
of this work. 
Genos II. 
XANTHORHI‘ZA Z. Tut Yevrtow-Roor. Lin. Syst. Polyandria 
Mono-Tri-gynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx of 5 deciduous sepals. Petals 5, of two roundish lobes 
raised on a pedicel. Stamens 5-10. Ovaries 5-10. Carpels 2—3-seeded, 
but usually solitary from abortion. (Don’s Mill., i. p.65.) — There is only 
one species known. ; . . = 
aves compound, opposite, stipulate, deciduous; pinnately divided, 
toothed, and serrated. Flowers in racemes, axillary, compound, appearing 
with the leaves. 
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