478 On the Paeonia Moutan, or Tree Pseony, fyc. 



and with crisped margins; the interior petals are long and 

 narrow, much jagged at the edges, very numerous, and 

 they rise in the middle of the flower to a considerable height ; 

 the stamens appear mixed with the interior petals, and the 

 germens are included in a membranous sheath. The scent 

 is agreeable, but not so fine as in the semi-double variety. 

 Semi-double flowers are often observable on the plant, at the 

 same time that others quite double are produced, and some- 

 times, I have been told, all the blossoms produced in a 

 season are semi-double. The imported plant of Mr. Hibbert 

 first blossomed in 1796; it was then very weak, and the 

 flowers it produced were nearly single ; but in the following 

 year they were very double, and continued so in succeed- 

 ing years. The variety now described has, hitherto been 

 supposed identical with that which precedes it. I consider, 

 however, there is sufficient difference between them to justify 

 their being separated ; and I have therefore done so. In the 

 account of this plant, in the Botanist's Repository above re- 

 ferred to, it is stated to have been introduced in 1794. 



Notwithstanding the opinion above expressed on the dif- 

 erence of the two Roseas, I think it right to mention, that it 

 is questioned by Messrs. Loddiges, to whose authority I 

 am disposed to pay great deference. In the account of the 

 figure of the Moutan Rosea, published in their Botanical 

 Cabinet, and above referred to, as representing the semi- 

 double variety, it is stated, that the plant from which the 

 representation was taken, was originally obtained from Mr. 

 Hibbert, and that it always produces semi-double flowers. 

 Mr. Hibbert had certainly only one plant of the Rosea, 

 which was that I have above described as having double 



