Tas. 6846, 
ANEMON E TRIFOLta. 
; Native of Central Europe. 
Nat. Ord. Ranuncutacex.—Tribe ANEMONER. 
Genus Anemone, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p- 4.) 
ANEMONE f¢rifolia; erecta, gracilis, glaberrima, rhizomate brevi robusto, foliis 
involucrantibus petiolatis 3-foliolatis, foliolis subsessilibus oblongo v. elliptico- 
lanceolatis acuminatis serratis, floribus solitariis gracile pedunculatis albis, 
sepalis 6 (5-7) ovato-oblongis obtusis, staminibus parvis filamentis filiformibus 
antheris flavis, carpellis maturis perplurimis lineari-oblongis compressis crasse 
costatis hirsutis in stylum brevem uncinatum attenuatis. 
A. trifolia, Moris. Hist. Pl. pars ii. p. 424, sect. 4, tab. 25, fig. 1; Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. i. p. 540; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 20; Sturm. Deutsch. FI. vol. iv. tab. 14; 
Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. vol. iv. tab. 48; Gerard. Herb. p. 305, fig. 9. 
It is remarkable that this plant, though cultivated in 
England by Gerard as early as 1597, should not have been 
figured in any English work since the publication of 
Morison’s “ Historia Plantarum” in 1680, the citation of 
which is omitted by Linnzus in the first edition of his 
“Species Plantarum.” It is a native of Central and 
Southern Europe, from Piedmont and North Italy to 
Southern Austria and Croatia; De Candolle indeed adds 
Siberia, but according to Ledebour the plant referred to 
as Siberian is A. refleza, Steph., an allied but different 
Species. : a 
A. trifolia, though included in the last edition of Aiton’s 
** Hortus Kewensis ” (1810) has probably long been out of 
general cultivation in England. It has, however, been 
lately reintroduced by Mr. W. Brockbank, of Didsbury, 
who brought to Kew, in May last, the specimens here 
figured. It is well worthy of cultivation, and now that the 
love of herbaceous plants is taking root in the country, it 
is not likely to be lost again. : 
Descr. Quite glabrous. Rootstock stout, as in A. 
nemorosa. Stems six to ten inches high, slender. Leaves 
all three-foliolate, radical on long petioles ; involucral on 
Noy. Ist, 1885. 
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