Article (magazine)  (2006)  Page(s) 79.  
 
[Key to the Genus Paeonia in the Mediterenean]
1a. Plants entirely glabrous, very occasionally pubescent on lower surface of leaves; carpels glabrous, very occasionally hispid.
2a. Carpels mostly 4–8, very rarely less; leaves purple and always glabrous beneath, lower leaves always with nine or less entire leaflets (Baleares) (2n = 10). . . . . P. cambessedesii
2b. Carpels mostly 2–4, less frequently 1 or more; leaves green-gray or purple, glabrous or holosericeous beneath, lower leaves with nine or more leaflets/segments.
3a. Leaves glabrous, very occasionally pubescent beneath; lower leaves mostly with more than nine leaflets/segments; carpels 2, less frequently 3 or 4 (S Spain and Morocco (2n = 20) . . . . .P. coriacea
3b. Leaves mostly holosericeous, rarely glabrous beneath; lower leaves mostly with 9 leaflets; carpels 1–5 (2n = 10). . . . .P. corsica
1b. Plants hairy, very occasionally glabrous; carpels tomentose.
4a. Hairs on carpels 3 mm long, yellow-white; leaflets/segments mostly more than 9, very rarely 9 in number, glabrous or sparsely hispid beneath (Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Greece to Iraq) (2n = 20). . . . .P. mascula
4b. Hairs on carpels 1.5 mm long, brown-yellow; leaflets/segments mostly 9, rarely more in number, rather densely holosericeous, rarely glabrous beneath (Corsica, Sardinia, Ionian Islands and Akarnania Province) (2n = 10) . . . . P. corsica

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 104.  
 
Plant Introductions in the period 1200-1299
1299 Paeonia mascula (syn. P. corallina) S. Europe

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 39.  
 
About the same time [1299], P. mascula, a species from southern Europe, was brought to Britain, possibly by the Augustinians when they settled on the little island of Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel....

Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 632-633.  
 
Paeonia mascula The flowers are deep pink, red or white

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 650.  
 
On ne cultive pas la simple , et très-peu celle dite mâle. Pæonia officinalis mas, qui n'a de valeur que par ses graines d'un beau rouge.

Book  (1778)  Page(s) tab 300.  Includes photo(s).
 
Classe, Polyandrie. Ordre, Dyginie. Gente de Lin. Paeonia.
Herbe Vivace.
Noms (Latin. Paeonia Officinalis mascula, Lin.
(françois. La PIVOINE MALE.
(- vulgaires. La Pione, la Péone.
Détail des parties caractéristiques.
1. Une fleur de grandeur naturelle, composée de conq pétales ou plus, quelquefois de trois, d'unnombre indéterminé d'étamines & de deux à cinq ovaires.
2. Le calice qui est de cinq feuilles inégales entre elles.
3. Les germes dont les stygmates sont colorés.
4. Chaque fleur a une feuille florale qui tient étroitement au calice.
Port. Ses tiges s'élebvent de deux pieds ou environ elle croît dans la Suisse, la Grece; elle fleurit dans les mois de Juin & Juillet.
Observations. Il y a une variété qu'on nomme pivoine femelle, dont les semences sont plus allongées, plus étroites, & ses feuilles ont les lobes irréguliers.
Propriétés. Ses fleurs ont une odeur désagréable, une saveur âpre & amere: toute la plante est un peu anodine & fortifiante.
Usages. On a attribué à la racine de la Pivoine, des vertus anti-spasmodiques / anti-épileptiques qu'elle n'a pas: on en cultive plusieurs variétés simples, doubles & panachées, pour l'ornement des jardins.

Website/Catalog  (1771)  Page(s) 24.  
 
la Pivoine mâle...Paeonia officinalis mascula.

Book  (1768)  
 
Paeonia (Mascula) foliis lobatis ex ovato-lanceolatis. Haller. Helv. 311. Peony with lobated leaves which are oval and spear-shaped. Paeonia folio nigricante splendido, quae mas. C.B.P. [C. Bauhin Pinax theatri botanici] dark shining leaves, otherwise male peony.
....The first sort here enumerated, is the common male Peony, which grows naturally in the wqoods on the Helvetian mountains. The root of this is composed of several oblong knobs, shaped like the dugs of a cow, which hang by strings, fastened to the main head; the stalks rise about two feet and a half high, which are garnished with leaves composed of several oval lobes, some of which are cut into two or three segments; they are of lucid green on their upper side, but are hoary on their under. The stalks are terminated by large single flowers, composed of five or six large roundish red petals, inclosing a great number of stamina, terminated by oblong yellow summits. In the center is situated two, three, or sometimes five germen, which join together at their base; they are covered with a whitish hairy down; these afterwards spread asunder, and open longitudinally, exposing the roundish seeds, which are first red, then purple, and when perfectly ripe turn black. The flowers appear in May, and the seeds ripen in autumn.
There is one variety of this with pale, and another with white flowers, as also one whose leaves have larger lobes; but as these are generally supposed to be only seminal variations, so I have not enumerated them here.

Book  (1757)  Page(s) pl. 245.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paeonia mas. 1. Blume 2. Frucht 3. Saame Gicht Rose Männlein

Translation:
Paeonia mascula 1. Boom 2. Fruit 3. Seeds Peony Male

Book  (1737)  Page(s) pl. 245.  Includes photo(s).
 
Male-Piony / 1. Flower 2. Seed Vessel 3. Seed Vessel open 4. Seed / Paeonia mas.

Plate 245. Male-Piony. Paeonia mas.
1. The Stalks grow about two Foot high, the Leaves are a dark grass Green with reddish Veins, and the Flowers red.
2. It is planed in Gardens and flowers in April and May.
3. The Flowers Seed & Roots are esteemed cephalic & good for the Epilepsy, Apoplexy, & all kinds of Convulsions; both in Young & old. They are also accounted good in histeric Cases, Obstructions of the Menses and the Retention of the Lochia. The Root and Seed are hung about Children's Necks to prevent Convulsions in Breeding their Teeth.
4. Greek, Γλνκαίδη, or Παιονία. Latin, Paeonia folio nigricante Splendido que Mas. Spanish, Rosa del Monte. Italian, Peonia. French, Pivoine or Pynoine. German, Peonien. Dutch, Pione maneke.