The Best: Krekler Peonies, Somerville, Ohio (1958)  Page(s) 6.  
 
$2.50 Dutch Dwarf—Broad dense grey bush, gay wine flowers.

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia paradoxa—Double Varieties.
170 Erigone...$2 00

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia officinalis—Double Varieties.
168 Splendens, vel Fulgens...$1 00

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia officinalis—Double Varieties.
167 Noble pourpre...$2 00

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia officinalis—Double Varieties.
166 L'Oriflamme...$1 50

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia officinalis—Double Varieties.
169 Striata elegans...$2 00

William R. Prince & Co. (1855)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Pæonia officinalis—Double Varieties.
165 Etoile de Pluto...$1 50

The Garden (29 May 1886)  Page(s) 492-3.  
 
Pæonia cotallina.—This noble-habited plant is now in flower, being one of the earliest and most beautiful of all the single-blossomed kinds. Of course, it cannot for a moment be compared with the snow-white P. edulis, which produces its Water Lily-like blossoms a few weeks later on in the year, yet it has a boldness of foliage unrivalled by that of any other Pæony, and when it bears its crimson and black berries late in autumn the plant again becomes quite an attraction in the garden. These single Pæonies are now becoming quite popular, and so the quest for them is nearly as energetic as is that after rare Daffodils. Pæonia corallina is more readily propagated than most others by means of seeds sown in shallow drills as soon as ripe in the open air. They germinate during the following spring and soon make strong plants, or a big clump or two may be divided, but it must be just as the young growth appears in March or April. Apart altogether from its showy character as a good hardy flower, it is interesting as being a rare native plant. Its only British habitat is on the Step-Holme Island, in the Bristol Channel, where it grows in company with the parent of our cultivated Leek (Allium Scorodoprasum). Mr. T. H. Thomas, of Cardiff, kindly sent me an account of these two plants some time ago and a sketch of them as growing up on a rocky ledge above the little inn on the island, and he informs me that a careful watch is kept to prevent its extermination.

The Garden (9 May 1885)  Page(s) 414.  
 
Notes on Hardy Plants.
Pæonia corallina, whose name naturally forces one's thoughts to the other end of its season, is worthy of notice in the spring. Like P. anemoneflora, it has a peculiar form in the sprout state, but more pronounced in corallina than in the other, and it is also a much stronger plant. As soon as the shoots have grown a little they assume the shape of a tall and big Mushroom with the top closed on the stalk; the colour is a greyish purple, and though later glabrous, at this stage the plant is very downy, all the upper leaf surfaces being turned in. It is strange that this plant is not largely grown; the flowers are a superb crimson. It is probably the most striking plant in the British flora. Next come the ornamental seed-pods; the follicles are large and downy, not unlike horn-shaped rolls of wash-leather. When they split they expose a beautiful setting of large crimson seeds in a bright yellow bed for weeks the seeds are thus held, and attractive as the plant is in its flowering state, it is perhaps more so when tipped by its grey carpels.

Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society (1928)  Page(s) 281-2.  
 
Peony Species
P. corallina. A native of southern Europe and Asia Minor. Flowers crimson or rose-red. The species is found on the Island of Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel, England, and therefore has sometimes been claimed as a British species, but the weight of authority is against such an assumption.