"P.foemina grows in many of our gardens where it grows vigorously, and if the root is dug up and a small piece left behind, it grows again. I hear that it grows wild on tops of the mountains about Glarus (Glarona), from which the river Serf (Serva fluvius) rises ; a double-flowered form of it is found but is very rare. Paeonia mas folio nucis is found more rarely in gardens. I do not believe it grows wild in Germany ; both this and the other are found, I hear, on the mountain called Generoso, near Lugano, which town is in Switzerland, not far from Lake Como. No figure of this (paeony) has been given so far although Dodoens had it in cultivation. Paeonia minor C., this was sent me by him not long ago with certain one of others."