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P L A T E CCCCLXXXVI.
P T E O N I A DAURICA.
Dauric Poeony.
CLASS Xm. ORDER IL
POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Many Chives. Two Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER,
CALYX 5-phyllus. Pétala 5. Stylus 0. Capsulae
polyspermas.
CUP S-leaved. Petals 5. Pointai none. Capsules
many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
P ^ o s i A foliis pinnatis; foliolis sub-ovatis, glaucis
: floribus rubro-purpureis : caulis herbaceus,
bipedalis.
P^ONY with winged leaves: the leaflets are
nearly egg-shaped, and glaucous: flowers
of a red purple: stem herbaceous, and
about two feet high.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement and seed-buds.
3. A chive.
3. The seed-buds as they appear when the seeds are nearly perfect.
THIS fine Paeony is at present a scarce plant; nor is tliere any figure of it extant, if not in the Flora
Russica of Dr. Pallas. The specimen our figure represents was received from Mr. J. Bell, who raised
it from seed, and with whom it has flowered for the first time in this country. It may witli propriety
be ranked among the most attractive of the herbaceous species. The flowers expand in tlie early part
of summer ; and from the cold climate whence it is indigenous, little doubt need be entertained of its
resisting our winter, if it can but endure the sudden changes of weather to which this island is subject;
a transition that frequently proves more fatal to plants the natives of a cold northern clime, than to those
of southern origin.