By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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flowers ; and I have heard that other plants, which are 

 always semi-double, were derived from the same source. 

 But notwithstanding the fact that some of the offspring of 

 this double flowering plant have uniformly semi-double blos- 

 soms, yet as the original, as well as others produced from it, 

 keep the character of bearing double flowers, I think the 

 considering it as distinct is justifiable. 



6. Pceonia Moutan Rawesii. A small plant of a Moutan 

 was brought from China, by Captain Richard Rawes, in the 

 Warren Hastings East Indiaman, in 1820, and presented by 

 him to Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, in Kent, 

 in whose garden, in 1825, it shewed one blossom, fwhich 

 was not however perfected. In the present year, the plant 

 produced several blossom buds ; but from being exposed to 

 the severe frost of the end of April, the flowers opened 

 badly, sufficiently perfect however to enable me to give the 

 following description of them. The bractes are longer, and 

 more conspicuous than in any other variety I have examined. 

 The calyx-leaves, instead of enclosing the bud in a globular 

 form, are twisted up so as to come to a point at the top. 

 The petals are not very unlike those of the Herbaceous 

 Pseonia Cretica ; they are pale, tinged very slightly with pink, 

 and have a very satiny shining appearance ; they are about 

 twelve in number, ovate-oblong, concave, and much lacerated 

 at the edges. The expansion of the flower, if fully opened, 

 would be about seven inches. The filaments are purple, 

 and short, the anthers consequently are clustered close 

 round the germens, which are enclosed in a small bright 

 reddish-purple membrane, the colour of which gives singu- 

 larity to the flower. The germens are six in number, having 



