PÆONY 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. 2. A chive. 3. The seed-buds as they appear when the seeds are nearly perfect. This fine Pæony is at present a scarce plant; nor is there 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 with propriety be ranked among the most attractive of the herbaceous species. The flowers expand in the 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. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXXXVII. XERANTHEMUM HERBACEUM. _Herbaceous Eternal Flower._ CLASS XIX. ORDER II. _SYNGENESIS POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united. Superfluous Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. RECEPTACULUM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus, radio colorato. RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly. Empalement tiled, rayed, the ray coloured. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. XERANTHEMUM herbaceum: foliis amplexicaulibus, oblongis, margine revolutis, lanâ albâ tectis: floribus terminalibus, solitariis, pallide aurantiis, nitidissimis: squamæ inferæ fulvescentes. XERANTHEMUM with an herbaceous stem: leaves embracing the stem, oblong, rolled back at the edges, and covered with a white wool: flowers terminate the branches singly, are of a pale gold colour, and very shining: the lower scales are of a foxy tint. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. One of the radiating scales. 2. A floret of the disk. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. Leaf of a variety. This handsome species of Xeranthemum may be regarded as truly herbaceous, as the plant not only dies down annually, but even whilst living keeps constantly sending up fresh shoots from the root. The white appearance of the leaves is owing to their being enveloped by a kind of wool: but there are two varieties; the one whose foliage is almost without this woolly coat, and the other entirely divested of it, and of a rich green colour; but in every other particular the plants are all exactly alike. Our figure was made from a small plant in fine flower in the conservatory of G. Hibbert, esq. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXXXVIII. BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA. _Paper Mulberry._ CLASS XXII. ORDER IV. _DIŒCIA TETRANDRIA._ Chives and Pointals on different Plants. Four Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. * _Masculi flores._ AMENTUM cylindraceum.