Book  (1893)  Page(s) 910.  
 
P. corallina Retz, Pivoine mâle; Pivoine corail. - Indigène. - Vivace. Tige glabre, haute de 60 cm.; flles. inf. biternées, les sup. ternées, glauques, blanchâtres ou elliptiques, entiers; en mai, fl. rouge purpurin ou rose corail, simples, larges de 8-10 cm.; carpelles étalés horizontalement.

Website/Catalog  (1884)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Single Hardy Paeonias.
1633 Dahurica (triternata), flesh colour, 3s. 6d.

Website/Catalog  (1884)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Single Hardy Paeonias.
1631 Corallina, crimson, 2s. 6d.

Book  (1863)  Page(s) 68-9.  
 
Tribe V. —Pæonieæ.
Genus XV. — Pæonia. Linn.
Species I. — Pæonia corallina. Retz.
Plate L.
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Kelv. Vol. IV. Ran. Tab. CXXVIII. Fig. 4745.
Stem simple, herbaceous.  Leaflets oval or elliptical, entire.  Petals broadly obavate.  Stigmas recurved.  Follicles diverging when ripe.
Naturalized on the rocky cliffs of Steep Holmes Island, at the mouth of the river Severn, and said to have once been abundant there; but it is now become very scarce.  It is also reported from a few other places- as near the "Rocks", Bath, and at Kildale Woods, Cleveland, Yorkshire, "probably on the site of an old garden." — (Sup. to Fl. of Yorkshire.)
[England.] Perennial.  Summer.
Rootstock producing thickened, fleshy, sessile or stalked carrot-shaped tubers.  Stem 1 to 2 feet high, 1-flowered.  Leaves stalked, ternate, the divisions again ternate or pinnate, with 2 pairs of leaflets and an odd one; uppermost leaves resembling one of the leaflets of the lower ones; leaflets 2 to 4 inches long.  Flower about 4 inches in diameter.  Calyx with 1 or 2 of the sepals resembling one of the leaflets.  Petals crimson.  Filaments crimson, with yellow anthers.  Pistils covered with whitish wool.  Stigmas crimson, hooked, or even coiled.  Follicles about 1¼ inch long, very woolly, spreading horizontally.  Plant nearly glabrous.  Leaves dark green above, glaucous beneath.
Entire-leaved Male or Coral Peony.
French, Pivoine Coralline.  German, Eichtrose.
This genus of plants is said to have been named after the physician Paeon, immortalized for having cured Pluto and other gods of wounds received during the Trojan War, it is said, with the aid of this plant.  The Peony is a common garden plant, and is very showy and handsome with its rich-coloured flowers when well placed.  In its wild native haunts it is peculiarly attractive.  Dr. Withering says: "Few aquatic excursions can prove more interesting to the naturalist than a sail through the romantic pass of St. Vincent's Rocks to the Holmes Islands.  The Steep Holmes represents the rugged truncated apex of a submarine mountain, whose abruptly precipitous sides are only accessible at one proper landing-place.  Amid the shelving rocks and loose shingly stones, at an elevation of 100 feet,
'There ye may see the Peony spread wide.'"
It seems almost peculiar to this locality, and the supposition would be that it has been introduced from some wrecked vessel, or that it must have escaped from some neighboring garden; but tradition recognizes its existence for so many years in this spot, that it would be difficult to trace its origin.  The superstitions connected with the Peony are very numerous.  In ancient times it was supposed to be f divine origin, an emanation from the moon, and to shine during the night, protecting shepherds and the harvest from injury, driving away evil spirits, and averting tempests.  Josephus speaks of the Peony as a wonderful and curious plant.  He says, according to Gerarde, that to pluck it up by the roots will "cause danger to he that touches it; therefore a string must be fastened to it in the night, and a hungry dog tied thereto, who, being allured by the smell of roasted flesh set towards him, may pluck it up by the roots."  Pliny and Theophrastus assert that "of necessity it must be gathered in the night; for if any man shall pluck of the fruit in the daytime, being seen of the woodpecker, he is in danger to lose his eyes."  Gerarde, with discenment superior to his time, adds: "But all these things be most vaine and frivolous, for the root of Peionie may be removed at any time of the yeare, day, or houre whatsoever."  Still, although he disallows the superstitions connected with the gathering of the plant, he believes in its medical virtues, and gives a long list of ailments and diseases for which it is a sovereign remedy.  The seeds have been strung and worn round the neck as an ornament, from their beautiful red colour, and frequently not without reference to cabalistic purposes as a protection against evil spirits.  At the present day necklaces are made of small beads carved from the root of the Peony, and sold in respectable chemists' shops, to be worn round the necks of young children, when cutting their teeth, as anodyne necklaces.  Can we be severe on the follies of our ancestors when such superstitions linger in our own day?

Book  (1854)  Page(s) 5.  
 
P. corallina, Lin., Côte-d'Or, rust.
Très-commun dans quelques parties de bois de la commune de Chamboeuf. Floraison au 1^er mai 1841.

Book  (1853)  Page(s) 1318.  
 
P. corallina, Retz.; P. mascula, Desf.; P. CORAIL, P. MALE. De la Suisse. Glabre sur toutes ses parties, excepté sur ses fruits , feuilles triternées, à folioles ovales entières, plus larges que dans aucune autre, portées sur des pétioles rougeâtres; tige également rougeâtre, de O^m.50 à 0^m.70, terminée en avril par une fleur simple, à 6 pétales rouges, pourpre ou violacés, large de 0^m.12 au moins. Cette fleur, tres belle, quoique simple, ne eut soutenir la concurrence avec les variétés à fleurs doubles de l'espèce suivante; on en cultive néanmoins quelques pieds à cause des graines rouges que ses fruits réfléchis montrent en s'ouvrant depuis le milieu de l'eté jusque dans l'automne.

Book  (1841)  Page(s) 110.  
 
Paeonia Daurica, Pivoine du levant. Pourpre. Mai.

Book  (1841)  Page(s) 150.  
 
Paeonia coralina, Pivoine mâle. Rouge. Mai.

Magazine  (Jun 1839)  Page(s) 206.  
 
Visites aux établissements d'horticulture de Paris et des environs.Indications de plantes remarquables...
Triternata.- Tige épaisse, folioles arrondieset d'un aspect particulier; fleur simple, rose liacé clair.

Magazine  (Aug 1837)  Page(s) 237.  
 
Some Remarks on the herbaceous Paeonies, together with a description of most of the Species and Varieties, and a few observations upon their Propagation, Cultivation, &c. By the Conductor. (p. 283-292)
P. corállina.—A single flowered species, with middle sized, dull purplish red, blossoms, appearing from the 8th to the 16th of June. The habit of the plant is dwarf. It is only deserving of cultivation when the object is to collect together all the species. A native of Switzerland.