. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 18 ARBORETUM ET FRUTZCETUM BRITANNICUM. to many-seeded. Suffruticose deciduous shrubs, of low growth, natives o( temperate climates. Leaves compound, alternate or opposite, stipulate, deciduous, but with- out possessing a clasping power. Floiuers very large in Pseonia, very small in Xant
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 18 ARBORETUM ET FRUTZCETUM BRITANNICUM. to many-seeded. Suffruticose deciduous shrubs, of low growth, natives o( temperate climates. Leaves compound, alternate or opposite, stipulate, deciduous, but with- out possessing a clasping power. Floiuers very large in Pseonia, very small in Xanthorhiza; and tlie following are the distinctive characteristics of these genera: — Pmo^kia L. Sepals persistent. Petals orbicular, sessile. Xanthobhi'za L. Sepals deciduous. Petals 2-lobed, unguiculate. Genus I. PMO^'i^IA L. The P^eony. Lin. Syst. Polyandria Di-Pentagy'nia. Identification. The term Pa?onia was applied by the Greeks to these plants, which have continued to bear that name ever since. Synonymes. Peony, Piony; Pivoine, Fr.\ Gichtterrose, and Paonie, Ger.\ Rosa del Monte, Span.; Peonia, Jtat. Derivation. The term Pseonia is generally said to have been given by Hippocrates and Diosco- rides, in commemoration of Pffion, tlie physician who first used it in medicine ; but Professor Dfjn thinks it more probable that it is derived from PiEOnia, a mountainous country of Macedonia, wiiere some of the species grow wild. Gichtterrose, Ger., signifies the gouty rose, from the knobby or gouty appearance of the roots of the herbaceous species. Gen. Char. Calyx of 5 leafy, unequal, permanent sepals. Petals from 5 to 10, somewhat orbicular. Stamens numerous. Disk fleshy, girding the ovaries. Carpels follicular, from 2 to 6, large, many-seeded, terminated with thick bilamellate stigmas. Seeds rather globose, shining. Leaves compound, alternate, biternate or bipinnate. Flowers large, rosy, or rosy and white, usually v/ith a strong disagreeable smell. A suffruticose shrub. Height f
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