Caption:
Common peony or garden peony, Paeonia officinalis, Pivoine officinale. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Charles Louis Constans from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Medicale, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871.