Volume 8 — PLATE DXIV.

PÆONIA ANOMALA.

Anomalous-leaved Pæony.

CLASS XIII. ORDER V.

POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Styli 0. Capsulæ polyspermæ.

Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Pointal none. Capsules many-seeded.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Pæonia foliis biternatis, multipartitis: foliolis lanceolatis, undulatis, glabris: corollis læte purpureis, depressis: capsulis glabris.

Habitat in totâ Sibiria.

Pæony with biternate leaves, many-parted. Leaflets lance-shaped, waved, and smooth. Blossom of a bright purple, depressed. Capsules smooth.

Native throughout Siberia.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our figure represents a fine and at present very rare species of Pæony, not only ornamental in its flowers, but useful in its roots, which are eaten by the Mongolians in Tartary, at their meals, as vegetables. It flowered for the first time in this country in the month of July 1807 in the garden of Mr. J. Bell, near Brentford.