Tab. 7581. 

 ANEMONE vernalis. 



Native of Mountains of Europe. 



Nat. Ord. Eanunculace^:.— Tribe Anemone*. 

 Genus Anemone, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook./. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 4.) 



Anemone (Pulsatilla) vernalis ; acaulis, foliis ovatis pinnatisectis, segmentis 

 paucis oppositis sessilibus cuneatis v. cuneato-oblanceolatis irregulariter 

 3-5-fidis glabris v. laxe pilosis, scapo robusto plus minusve villoso nnifloro, 

 involucri villosissimi bracteis sessilibus in segmenta linearia brunnea ad 

 basin parti tis, floribus amplis erectis, sepalis 6 elliptico-oblongis obtusis 

 concavis dorso villosis pallide lilacinis, staminibus perplurimis extirais 

 imperfectis, acheniis villosis in caudas sericeo-villosas graciles productis. 



A. vernalis, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 538. Ait. Hort. Keit\ Ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 337. 



(Eder, Fl. Dan. vol. i. tab. 29. Palmstr. Svensk. Bot. vol. x. t. 337. 



DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 189; Prodr. vol. i. p. 16. Sturm, Deutsch. Flor. vol. 



vi. t. 24 Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Ed. 2, p. 7. Gren. & Godr. Fl. Franc. 



vol. i. p. 10. Bertol. Fl. Ital, vol. v. p. 461. Ledeb. Fl. Ross, vol.i. p. 20. 



Joum. Horticult. Ser. 3, vol. xxxii. p. 223. 

 Pulsatilla vernalis, Mill. Diet. Anem. No. 3, Lessing in Linnsea, vol. ix. 



(1834) p. 171. Sweet, Brit. Fl, Gard. Ser. I. vol. iii. t. 205. Beirhb. Ic. 



Fl. Germ. vol. iv. t. 59. 



The most curious fact in the history of this beautiful 

 plant is that it is not a native of the British Islands, for 

 it has a very wide range as an alpine and subalpine plant 

 throughout Europe and in North Asia, ascending to 

 eight thousand feet in the Alps. Its limits are in the 

 West from Norway and Sweden to Central France and the 

 Pyrenees ; further East, from Saxony and Livonia to the 

 Swiss, Austrian, and Italian Alps ; and still further East 

 (according to Ledebour) from the Ural Mts. to Tobolsk in 

 Siberia. Thus extending through 20° of latitude and 75° of 

 longitude. Its nearest ally is the British A. Pulsatilla. 



Anemone vernalis was introduced into England before 

 1752, at which period it was cultivated by Phillip Miller 

 at Chelsea. According to Robinson's " Alpine Plants for 

 English Gardens," it is rare, and seldom seen in good con- 

 dition in this country. The specimen figured here was of 

 a pot plant grown in the Herbaceous Department of the 

 February 1st, 1898. 



