PiEO'NIA TENUIFO'LIA. 
FINE-LEAVED P^EONY. 
Order. 
DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ranunculace;e. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
18 inches. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1765. 
No. 696. 
The name of this genus was adopted by the 
Greeks after one of their fabulous personages ; see 
No. 241. 
The plant under consideration is a native of 
several parts of the north of Asia, but more par- 
ticularly of the southern provinces of Russia, and 
the Crimea. Excepting a single species, found 
by Douglas in California, the whole genus belongs 
to Asia and the south of Europe. Paeony tenui- 
folia has a handsome flower — exceedingly rich in 
colour, and its foliage rather remarkable in com- 
parison with that of other species. It is not so 
generally cultivated as it deserves, for indepen- 
dently of its flower, its finely cut foliage, forms a 
border ornament of no mean pretensions. 
A double-flowering variety of the fine-leaved 
Paeony was introduced to this country some years 
ago, from the Imperial Botanic Garden of St. 
Petersburg, but it is not frequently met with, even 
in the best Nurseries, 
In a rather strong loam this plant grows re- 
markably well, but it will not always perfect its 
flowers in very light pulverized earth. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 66. 
Class. 
POLYANDRIA. 
