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Herbarium, might prove to be it. The cultivated forms belong 

 to one botanical variety, P. a. insignis. It has stems \\ to 2 feet 

 high ; leaves about ten, the lower about one-third or one-quarter 

 the length of stem ; segments lanceolate ; carpels with red 

 pubescence and leaves reducing to the flower (typ.), or with 

 leaves not reducing to the flower (P. Barr), or having carpels 

 with white pubescence (F. W. Moore). The leaves are some- 

 times very slightly pubescent. 



B. Leaflets normally quite entire, rarely divided, but sometimes 

 deeply to the base ; never decurrent or confluent, except 

 sometimes the lateral leaflets of a terminal trio. (See 

 %. 27.) 



6. P. Wittmanniana, Stev., Bot. Mag., t. 6645. — Leaflets 

 thin, ovate, deep green ; distinctly pubescent beneath. Corolla 

 pale yellow. Caucasus and mountains of Persia. 



7. P. coriacea, Boiss. — Leaflets broadly ovate, firm in 

 texture when mature, glaucous below, with no sign of pubescence. 

 Corolla large, bright crimson. Alps of Grenada, mountains of 

 Morocco, and Algeria. 



** Carpels hairy. 

 t Leaflets almost, if not quite, glabrous below. 



8. P. triternata, Pallas (P. daurica, Andr.), Bot. Mag., t. 

 1441. — Roots oblong or cylindrical. Stems green. Lowest leaf 

 usually inserted at some distance from the ground, not very long ; 

 leaflets nearly round, undulated, greyish-green above, sometimes 

 very slightly pubescent below. Flower rose. Caucasus, Asia 

 Minor, and the Crimea. 



