PEONY. 
PAONIA, 
Class Aen SOUL AON Ee 
at. 
MOLTISILIU HELLEBORUS. 
the Nee unt whom 
me ae Peon: but ape in n atid, ae him 
flower which bears his and which has been celebrated 
throughout all antiquity, for is ered virtues 5 ; egg 
irits, ete. 
Th hl 
; petals roundish, conca po 
nual, two fee 
green leaves ; the root pere 
There might r see the Peony spreading wide. Cowper. 
Peoni ia, 
y ring unfur 
"sb soni fy gui ls. Evans. 
PEPPER PLANT. 
CAPSICUM, 
Class 5,—PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
in Nat. Ord. Ji 
SOLANER. 
Capsicum, i bly d 
t 0 bi 
Many species i this. 
ornament. The variou 
with oe: peg rea white blossoms, intermi 
green 
ing o Tasch in th e green-house » 0 fgg 
e C. Baccatum, Bird Pepper, is an especial favorite, The 
diminutiv re, peti globular f fruit, with the cabal eS a Speer 
derived from 
very pretty genus are cultivated for 
us and brilliant coloring of the fruit, 
se = haps e Pom ark 
ea 
y to repel the folly cise may gore 
When p ted by a lady—it may be understood to say, in 
the words of Swift, 
*©On me when dunces are dag aa 
I take it for a panegyrick 
The specific name Baccatum is from Bacca, a berry, any very 
small fruit of trees. 
PERIWINKLE. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. ; Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn 
CONTORT®. 
Vinca, the best derivation may, a 
bind, or wrap up; ese its elena, 
wind themselves around, and entangle pobabiy are 
their way.—Rees’s Seaienaia 
Periwinkle, —_ oe Sax. Winclesa shell fish. 2. y plant 
of the genus Vinc — Webs 
Skinner say’ rwinkle, or r Periwinkle, Clematis Daph- 
Any 
som: 
ha oes or, according to Lobelius, ourishes, 
and conquers, and rau continually (vincit et poser nies Ae 
of the 
In France, ‘the 
ple vane of memory a ca fore friendship, gr i in 
allusion to Rosseau of his friend Madame de 
Wa 
after the nihige of thi ye rie — by the sight 
toget 
r nu a perianth, inferior, 
of one eats pac mon pines ony pe acy salver-shaped, 
nf 
The inca minor, found in every — pee esrememe 
rw 
rennial ; ; stems erect geet = 
h 
green, opposite te an inch long, Renee ss SM ede 
at the edges. Nativ egypt. 
Pe Rosea, _— i sear Periwinkle, has an shrubby 
; flowers sessile in pairs; leaves elliptio-oblong, entire, uf 
new downy, Sheatishs two inches ees Nati tiy be bead = East 
Indies, i ng the oe 
Ll nities white ; : 
fa bere rich crimson with a yellow 
5 
“~ + 
eye. 
HLOX, 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNI1A. 
Nat. Ord. ta Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ROTA 
Phlorx—Gre cP ‘punon—abe Phiox of Theophra: 
ame is synonym: gt ig i ee as is supposed, \ 
the bright color, or fier e of so the species ” 
The genus was term cane by ener ond ai getee y 
its resemblance to L Simca But 80 con- J 
took up t ow, 
id (Ly g 
é hoe 
a word i 
nearly Padaaginoes of the same thing. : 
ef 
y 
Fou arom ~ a: A tribe have been enume- 
ral ie re natives of North erica ; 
and, as far as we wes 9 no rag se country -—Rees’s Encyclo ? 
The apa are showy, of various hues of purple, or pink; a $y 
v9 in one instance, of a brilliant white, as in the Ph. Suaveo- an. 
lens, fragrant w white Phlox. LP 4 
h. Pani — — Common ea a ee Lychni- 
ea, eo a see _ ~ : 
Ph. Pyramida: ce an “we in a dense 
P idal ee ‘of a rich oom pias 3 stem pur- 
very ornamental species. 
spotted-stalked Lychnidea, or wild Sweet- 
frequent 
in our ar gardens pone scan from the last named, by the re- 
curved 
pettous 
ne acute tee! 
t; perennial, herbaceous, entire- 
PINE. 
d, mono- } 
us; vad one ean bul with five oe and five fe Pe 
, 
i 
' 
Sy 
Order.—MONADELPHIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
's Encyclopedia. 
Pinus, Latin, from the _Greek bsigabwe which, according to 
Schrevelius k adjective Pion, signifying 
