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ANEMONE japonica. 
Japanese Anemone. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE. 
ANEMONE. Botanical Register, vol. 3. fol. 200. 
A, japonica; caulescens, foliis radicalibus caulinisque ternatim sectis, seg- 
mentis cordatis trilobis insequaliter duplicato-serratis, involucralibus 
inferioribus petiolatis basi cuneatis cæterum conformibus, superioribus 
sessilibus, pedunculis elongatis v. nudis unifloris v. dichotomo-ramosis 
et iterum involucratis, sepalis plusquam 20 extüs sericeis, cariopsibus 
ecaudatis densè villosis.— Siebold Fl. Japonica, 1. p. 16. t. 5. 
Atragene japonica, Thunb. ff. japon. p. 239. 
Clematis ? polypetala, DeCand. Prodr. 1. 10. 
How any one, calling himself a botanist, could have 
fancied this plant to be an Atragene passes our skill to ex- 
plain. Yet such has been the case, for it stands as an Atra- 
gene in the writings of Thunberg, a Swedish botanist, who 
once possessed some reputation. DeCandolle might well 
hint that it was probably an Anemone, as indeed was tolerably 
apparent from the description of it. 
It is not only an Anemone, but a most beautiful one, 
not inferior to the Chinese Chrysanthemum, or even the 
Anemone coronaria of the East. For its introduction to this 
country the public is indebted to the Horticultural Society, 
who received it from Mr. Fortune, in 1844. That inde- 
fatigable collector had met with it at Shanghae, the Ja- 
panese port of China. 
It has flowered this autumn in great beauty inthe garden 
of the Society, in a greenhouse, its flowering stems being 
nearly two feet high. It may, however, be expected to be 
better suited to the open border, at least during summer, and 
