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is a very distinct variety, the two others approach each other 

 so nearly, that they will not perhaps be considered sufficiently 

 different to be separated, except by very nice observers. As 

 the flowers of those now to be described are the first they 

 have produced, it is probable that they will very much 

 improve in size hereafter. The plant of Banksii, which pro- 

 duced the capsules from which the seeds were gathered, 

 grew close to a Papaveracea, and from the characters of the 

 flowers of their produce, I am disposed to think that they 

 are derived from the pollen of the latter. 



7. PcBonia Moutan Carnea Plena. I have given this 

 name to the first of the two plants which I have stated are 

 nearly similar to each other ; the difference between them 

 principally consists in the ground colour of the petals, which 

 in this is of a delicate purplish pink. The blossoms are 

 large, very double, with a great resemblance in character and 

 appearance to those of Banksii, except that they are less, 

 more compact, and that they are without the central elongated 

 petals, which sometimes in that variety appear to rise from 

 amongst the germens. I think, however, some disposition 

 towards this is observable in the specimens I have ex- 

 amined of the next variety. The petals in botli are also 

 generally smaller, and more abundant than in the Banksii ; 

 they also have a rich purple rayed spot at the base of every 

 petal ; these spots are exactly similar to those in the flower 

 of Papaveracea, except that they are smaller. From the full- 

 ness of the blossom, these spots are not so strikingly observable 

 as in the Papaveracea. In the variety now under notice the 

 germens are numerous, and are at first covered with a purple 

 membrane, that subsequently bursts. 



