Website/Catalog  (29 Jan 2010)  
 
Paeonia lactiflora Pall. var. rubescens
See Paeonia lactiflora Pall. var. fragrans for a description of the species.  Paeonia albiflora rubescens is described as a form with pink flowers in Paxton’s Dictionary, although it may be synonymous with P. albiflora var. rubra, with ‘very double, dark purple flowers.  This is the variety most common in gardens.’  [Clericus in FC p.47/1842]. ...

History at Camden Park
Received per ‘Sovereign’ February 1831.  [MP A2948].  It was probably lost before 1843 as it is not listed in the catalogues.

Book  (1849)  Page(s) 498.  
 
P. albiflora Pall....Following new varieties are available in Belgian nurseries (namely at Mr. L. van Houtte in Gent):...rubéscens amabilis...

Book  (1846)  Page(s) 470.  
 
albiflora.....rubescens amabilis Hort. belg.....

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 91.  
 
Plantes herbacées de pleine terre...
PÆONIA
rubescens.

Magazine  (1822)  Page(s) 268.  
 
Paeonia albiflora c. fragrans. P. fragrans Anderson in Linn. transact. 12. Mr. Sabine, whose plants the late Anderson used for his Monography, has cultivated all species and varieties of this magnificent genus for a long time in his garden in North-Mimms in Hertfordshire. The varieties of P. albiflora hitherto known to him are the following 9 : 1) vestalis Andr. rep. 64; 2) candida; 3) tatarica bot. reg. 42. Salisb. par. 78; 4) sibirica; 5) rubescens; 6) uniflora Curt. mag. 1766; 7) Whitleyi fl. pleno. Andr. rep. 612. 8) Humei Curt. mag. 1768; 9) fragrans.

Article (magazine)  (1818)  Page(s) 259.  
 
2. PÆONIA ALBIFLORA. ...
ε. rubescens ; foliolis concavis angustioribus purpurascentibus, corolla rubente 8-petala, stigmatibus ochreis, caulibus trifloris.

This plant was purchased by Mr. Ronalds, nurseryman, of Brentford, at the sale of the late Mr. Bell's collection. Sir Abraham Hume has the same plant, and we believe from the same source, under the name of tatarica. This is the most diminutive variety, and with flowers of the darkest colour. The leaves are small, obtuse, concave or channelled on the upper surface. Perhaps this may be the variety γ of the Paradisus Londinensis " petalis roseis.” The petals of our plant are pale red, narrow, and small: stigmas of the same colour as those of var. α. 

Magazine  (1818)  Page(s) 285.  
 
[Joseph Sabine comments on December 20, 1817 on the first volume of De Candolle's Systema Naturale Regni Vegetabilis, "which has just arrived from Paris"]
...Of P. albiflora he makes two varieties only; his a, judging by the reference to Andr. Repos. 64, is our P. albiflora α. vestalis ; his β. flore roseo is our P. albiflora γ. Tatarica, as I conclude from his reference to Par. Lond. 78, though the plant there figured is described as having " petala pallide rosea," whilst that with “ petala rosea,” therein noticed as another variety, is either our P. albiflora ε  rubescens, or one which, if ever it did exist in our gardens, is now lost.