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PLATE CCCCXLVIIL
P y E O N I A SUFFRUTICOSA; Far. Jore purpureo.
Shrubby Pceony ; Purple-Cowered Variety.
CLASS XIII. ORDER V.
POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C a l ï x 5-phyllus. Pétala 5. Styli 0. Gapsulae
polyspermoe.
Cup 5-leaved. Petals B.
sules many-seeded.
Pointai none. Cap-
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
PiEDNiA caule suffruticoso, tripedali, ramoso :
folia alternatim bipinnata, pedalia et ultra,
bifida et trifida, subtus glauca : petiolis longis,
canaliculatis, araplexicaulibus ; floribus
semi-duplicibus, purpuréis, splendentibus.
P^oNY with a shrubby stem, three feet high,
and branching: leaves alternately twowinged,
a foot or more in length, two- and
three-cleft, glaucous beneath j the petioles
are long, channelled, and embracing the
stem: flowers semi-double, purple, and
very splendid.
This elegant plant is the purple variety mentioned in our last Vol. PI. 373. and flowered at the same
time, with completely double flowers, and so equal in point of beauty, that we hesitated some time
before we could determine to which we should give the preference. But had we seen the purple one
in its present semi-double state, it would undoubtedly have claimed precedence, as well from its preserv'ed
botanic character, as its superior beauty. The singular versatility of these plants we were entirely
unacquainted with when we figured the rose-eoloured one; as, since that period, we have seen,
them in bloom with single flowers, the following year with double ones ; and again the year after we
found this purple one in the semi-double state which our figure represents, the plant then bearing fiveand
twenty flowers in full perfection, forming a coup-d'oeil superior to any shrub we have ever seen.
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