Tab. 5518. 



ANEMONE (Hepatica) angulosa. 



Angle-leaved Hepatica. 



Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEiE. — POLYANDBJA PoMGYNIA. 



Gen. Char. Involucrum sub flore e foliis 3 verticillatis (v. segmentis folii flo- 

 ralis) compositum. Sepala 4-20, petaloidea. Petala 0, nisi stamina exteriora 

 in glandulas stipitatas mutata. Garpella indefinita, multiovulata. Ovulum 

 pendulum. Achcenia capitata, stylo persistente nudo v. barbato acuminata v. 

 caudata. — Herbse, caudice perenni. Folia radicalia dissecta v. lobata. Scapi 

 radicales prater involucrum fieri approximatum v. plus minus remotum (nonnun- 

 quam repetitum scapo ramosoj aphylli. Flores terminates, ceerulei albi rubri p. 

 purpurei, rarius pallide fiavicantes. Stamina sepalis breviora. Achsenia seepius 

 compressa carinata v. alata, faciebus aveniis v. rarius 1-S-nerviis, rarius angulata. 

 Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. 4. 



Anemone (Hepatica) angulosa ; foliis radicalibus palmato-3-5-lobis, lobis cre- 

 nato-dentatis, petiolo scapisque sericeo-villosis, floribus amplis, involucri 

 foliolis flore approximatis apice 3-lobis. 



Anemone angulosa. Lam. Diet. v. I. p. 169. 



Hepatica angulosa. Be Cand. Prodr. v. I. p. 22. 



H. triloba, var. angulosa. Spach, Syst. Veget. v. l.p. 241. 



A very beautiful spring-flowering plant, considered by Spach 

 as a variety of A. fllepaticaj triloba, but abundantly distinct in 

 the larger size, always toothed or almost lobulate lobes of the 

 leaf, and very much larger and more beautiful flowers. The 

 plant from which our Plate was taken was flowered by Messrs. 

 Backhouse, of York, whose collection of herbaceous plants is ce- 

 lebrated for its beauty, variety, and high condition. The plant 

 is a native of Hungary. 



The genus Hepatica, first indicated by Dillenius, has been 

 accepted by some succeeding botanists and rejected by others, 

 the former preponderating. Latterly, however, the discovery in 

 Kashmir of a species of Anemone {A. Falconeri, Thorns, in Hook. 

 Ic. Plant, t. 899) closely resembling the H. triloba in habit and 

 all other essential characters, except the position of the three 



JUNE 1st, 1865. 



