largest, anti most divided; upper ones gradually
smaller; segments ovate, or oblong, often bifid, or
trifid; sometimes simple, bluntish, the upper ones
a little pointed, flat, or slightly undulate, upper side
naked, uneven, of a bright green; under side thickly
clothed with a whitish woolly pubescence. Petioles
smooth, slightly decurrent, swollen at the base.
Sepals 5, smooth, unequal, outer ones green, scarcely
half the size of the inner ones, nearly round, pointed ;
inner ones nearly orbicular, retuse, green on the under
side, and tinged with red on the upper. Floivers
double, of a reddish purple. Petals 8 on the outside,
obovate, slightly retuse, much veined; edges a little
uneven, surrounding the numerous stamens that are
transformed into narrow petals, with here and there
a broad one intermixed. Pollen produced round the
edges of some of these of a yellow colour. Germens
2, erect, close pressed, thickly clothed with a white
dense tomentum. Styles 2, flesh-coloured, hooked or
reflexed.
This beautiful variety of P. paradoxa had generally
passed in our Nurseries for a variety of P . humilis,
until its species had been determined by the late
Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Sabine, in the Horticultural
and Linnean Transactions, where a masterly account
of the whole that were known at that time in our
gardens is given, with their synonyms.
The present variety is readily distinguished from the
double ones of the other species, by its humbler growth,
and pubescent leaves; it thrives well in the common
garden soil, and is increased by dividing at the root.
Our drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs.
Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Fulham Nursery.
1. Calyx showing the unequal sepals. 2. Woolly Gcnneus, crowned with
the hooked fleshy style. 3. Stamen partly changed to a petal, showing the
pollen on its sides. r ? ©
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