divided leaves, and broad, almost rounded petals. No 

 doubt these and other intermediate forms may prove to 

 retain their characters under cultivation for an indefinite 

 period, due to their long isolation in their individual native 

 localities, and as such will be well worthy of cultivation. 

 That here figured represents an alpine European form, 

 specimens of which from Styria have triangular leaves, 

 five inches in diameter, leaflets one and half in. long 

 and broad, with three to five linear lobes, and narrow 

 petals up to one in. long. Others from Lake Baikal have 

 the peduncle twelve to sixteen inches long. The Himalayan 

 G. cachemirianum is not distinguishable from the typical 

 ruh'folium, it has leaves with short, broad leaflets, 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, and flowers one inch to 

 one and half inch in diameter, with cuneately oblong petals ; 

 it inhabits the whole Himalayan range at elevations of 

 nine thousand to seventeen thousand feet, as also Tibet. 

 In the Kurrum Valley, Panjab, Dr. Aitchison describes it 

 as reaching the snow line, that is the highest elevation of 

 any flowering plant. In Europe it extends from the 

 Pyrenees to the Eastern Austrian Alps, at eight thousand 

 to ten thousand feet elevation. Its extreme Eastern and 

 Southern limit is the mountains of Yunnan in China, where 

 it was collected by the Abbe Delavay. 



The specimen here figured of var. anemonoides, a native 

 of Styria, flowered in the Royal Gardens in March, 1897. 



Pescr.— A glabrous, subglaucous herb, six to twelve 

 inches high, with a stout rootstock, numerous radical 

 leaves, and single-flowered peduncles. Leaves long- 

 petioled; limb triangular in outline, bipinnatifid, with 

 linear or broader lobes varying greatly in size. Peduncle 

 naked, or bearing a small sessile leaf. Flowers one to 

 one and a half inches broad. Sepals five, orbicular im- 

 bricate, deciduous. Petals ten to fifteen, linear-oblong, 

 white, or pale rose-coloured. Stamens very many, 

 inserted on a hemispheric receptacle; anthers short. 

 Carpels many, oblong, 1-celled, 1-ovuled, stigma small, 

 sessile; ovule solitary, pendulous from near the top of 

 the cell. Achenes coriaceous, oblong, obtuse. Seed pen- 

 dulous.— J. D, B. 1 



Fig. 1, Petal; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4 and 5, carpels -.-All enlarged. 



