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var. Grevillei, Anders. — About 2 feet high. Leaflets deeply 

 incised, not imbricating, undulated, sometimes twisted, 

 of pale-green colour, margins red, ultimate division very 

 acute. Corolla purple-red. Seeds round. 



19. P. paradoxa, Anders. ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Garden, t. 19. — 

 About 1 foot high, the dwarfest except mollis and sessiliflora. 

 Forms a dense tuft of leaves. Leaflets three-lobed and incised, 

 the fissures short and obtuse, much imbricated, and with red 

 margins. Carpels pressed close together, and little separated in 

 the ripe fruit. Corolla purple -red. A close ally of peregrina, 

 from which it is known by smaller ovate and more glaucous 

 leaves, with more divided, crowded, and imbricating leaflets. 

 Montpeliier and Trieste. 



ft Terminal free divisions of the leaf three-lobed ; the middle 

 lobe rarely bifid, never trifid. (See fig. 31.) 

 § Leaflets about twice as long as broad. 



20. P. arietina, Anders. — The largest species of this section. 

 It is well marked by decurrent leaflets, with strongly arched 

 and even recurved carpels when mature. South of Europe, 

 var. Andersoni. — Leaves blue glaucous green. Corolla deep 

 rose, petals slightly crisped. Perhaps native of the 

 Levant. 



var, cretica (P. arietina oxoniensis, Anders. ; P. cretica, Clusius) , 

 Leaves pale green. Corolla pale rose, or nearly white, petals 



Fig. 31. 



