Tab. 4341. 
ANEMONE Japonica. 
Japan Anemone. 
Nat. Ord. Ranunculace^.—Polyandria Polygynia. 
Gen. Char. Imolucrum S-floriim, a flore distans, foliolis incisis. Calyx petaloi- 
deus, 5-15-sepalu3. Petala 0. Be Catid. 
Anemone Japonica ; caulescens, foliis radicalibus caulinisque tematim sectis, 
segmentis cordatis trilobis insequaliter ampliato-serratis, involucralibus 
inferioribus petiolatis basi cuneatis caeterum conformibus superioribus 
sessilibus, pedunculis elongatis v. uudis uuifloris v. dichotomo-ramosis et 
iteram involucratis, sepalis plerumque 30 extus sericeis, caryopsibus ecau- 
datis dense villosis. Sieh. 
Anemone Japonica. Siebold, FI. Japonica, v. 1. p. 16. t. 5. Lindl. Bot, Misc. 
1846. p. 66. Walp. Repert. Bot. ». 1. 28. 
Ateagene Japonica. TJiunb. FI. Jap. p. 239. 
Clematis? polypetala. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 10. 
A native of damp woods on a mountain called Kifune, near 
Miaho, in Japan, and introduced to this country by Mr. Fortune 
during his travels in China. As the plant is, according to Siebold, 
much cultivated by the Japanese on account of the beauty of its 
flowers, I cannot but fear that what have been transmitted to 
our Gardens exhibit strong marks of the flowers being double 
(floribus plenis), which may account for the fact mentioned by 
Siebold of the seeds rarely coming to perfection. Be that as it 
may, the species is a very beautiful one, flowering during the 
summer months and till late in the autumn. It is, moreover, 
perfectly hardy, and has endured, unharmed, the winter of 
184C-7, in the open air. A moist soil seems most favourable 
to its success. 
Descr. a herbaceous perennial, everywhere soft and downy 
with short hairs. Leaves radical, on long petioles, ternate: 
leaflets petiolulate, cordate or cordato-ovate, acute, three- or five- 
nerved, irregularly cut into three or five lobes (the lateral leaflets 
oblique) and coarsely serrated. Scape erect, one and a half to 
two feet high, divided above in a trichotomous manner, involu- 
december 1st, 1847. 
