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Salmon ’ s Herbal Lib. L 
Ro/ci Fatuina , i&rta Gaft a . , haft a Regia, Rofa AJ- 
niarum , with fome others •, but Pceonia, is the ge- 
neral Name, which bears away the Bell : in £>£- 
lift) Peony , and Pw/jy. 
II. T/^ Kinds. Tho 5 there are many Species of 
this Plant, yet there are but two Principal Kinds, 
viz. Pceonia Alas , the Male Peony ; and Pceonia 
Fcemina , the Female Peony. Of the Peonia Mas , 
or Male Peony, we know but of one only Species, 
which is thus diftinguifhed from the Female. _ The 
Leaf of the Male is whole with out any particular 
divifion, notch, or dent, on the edge, like to thof 
of the Wall-Nut-Tree , its Roots are long and 
round, divided into many Branches, fomething like 
to the Roots of Gentian or Elecampane , and not 
Tuberous at all. The Female (of which there are 
a great many forts) has its Leaves cut in or divided 
into parts , more or lefs , and has Tuberous Roots 
or Clogs, like thofe of the Afphodil , with many 
great, thick, round pieces, hanging or growing 
at the end of fmaller Strings, and all joined to 
the top of the main Root. From what has been 
faid, thefe following Kinds are eminent, viz. i. 
Pceonia Mas , the Male Peony, which is a lingular 
Species, as alorefaid. 2. Pceonia Fcemina vulga- 
ris F lore fimplici , the Common Female Peony fingle 
Flowered. 3 . Pceonia Fcemina Vulgaris Flore pic no 
rubra , the Common double red Peony. 4. Pceonia 
Fcemina Flore cameo fimplici , the Single blufh Peo- 
ny. F Pceonia Fcemina Flore pleno alhicante , the 
Double blufh Peony. 6. P ctoni a Fcemina By zantina 
Flore fimplici, the Single red . Peony of Confiantino- 
ple , or Turkilh Peony. 7. Pceonia Fcemina Flore 
fimplici Ef pleno Cliijij , Clufius his Female fingle 
and double red Peonies. Authors have fome more 
Species of Peonies , but they f?em to me, to be 
fome of the former Kinds over again, or being 
abfolute Strangers to us, are totally unknown in 
our Country. 
' The Defcriptions, 
Peony Male. 
III. The firjt , or Male Peony. Its Roots art. 
great , Thick , and long , fpreading in the Ground , 
and running down pretty deep. It rifes up with 
many brown Stalks , on which do grow zvinged 
Leaves , viz. many fair green , and Jometimes red- 
dijh Leaves , one fet upon another on a Stalk , with- • 
out a particular Divifion of the Leaf at all. The 
Flowers grow at the tops of the Stalks , con fifing 
of five or fix broad Leaves, of a fair s purplijh , red 
color , with many yellow Threads in the middle 
Handing about the Head, which after rifes up to be 
the Seed Veffels, divided into two, three , or four 
rough crooked Pods , like Horns •, which when they 
are full ripe , open , and turn themf elves down one 
edge to another backwards , fhewing within them 
divers round black fhining Seed, which are the true 
Seed, being full and good, and having alfo many red. 
or crimfon Grains, which are lank and idle , inter- 
mixed among the black, as if they were good Seed 
which makes them fhow Beautifully. 
IV. The fccond, or Common Female Peony fin- 
gle Flowered. The Root confifis, as we faid before v 
of many thick and fhort tuberous Clogs, fa fined at 
the ends of long Strings, and all from the Head 
Peony Female. 
of the Root, zvhicbis thick and fhort, and Tuberous 
alfo, of the fame or like fmcll with the Male. 
This Common Female Peony, has many Stalks, 
with more Jlore of Leaves on them, than thofe of the 
Male have : The Leaves alfo arc not fo large , but 
divided on the edges or deeply cut in, fome with 
great and deep, others with fmaller Cuts or Divi- 
fions, and of a dark or dead green color: The 
Flowers arc of a Strong Heady Smell, and ufi ally 
fmaller than thofe of the Male, and fomething 
more purple, tending to a marry color, with yellow 
Thrums about the Head in the middle, as the Male 
Kind has. The Heads or Horn's with Seed in them, 
are like alfo but fmaller. The Seed is black, but 
, lefs finning. 
V. The 
