are in fact branching herbs, though, as in A. amurensis, 
the main axis may be the only flowering one. 
The Japanese work cited above consists of twenty-one 
figures of varieties, or more probably garden sports of 
A. amurensis, of all sizes, with single“and double flowers, 
white, grey, yellow, green, purple, rose-colrd. and scarlet. 
Some are double, like “ bachelor’s buttons;” others have 
five laciniate petals, like a Dianthus. The sepals are 
often represented as ovate, acuminate, and very dark-colrd., 
and there are deviations from the type which might excite 
suspicion as to the good faith of the artist. 
The figure of the plant here given is from a specimen 
that flowered in a cool house of the Royal Gardens in 
February of this year. The red flower, fig. 3, is from the 
Japanese work. 
Descr.—A glabrous or sparsely hairy perennial-rooted 
herb, Stem eight to eighteen inches high, simple or 
branched, as thick as a swan’s quill, leafless below, but 
clothed with long membranous pale sheaths an inch long 
and more, the upper of which have sometimes foliaceous 
tips. Cauline leaves (really 2-3 connate leaves) three to 
six inches long and broad, the lower stalked, the upper 
sessile, orbicular-ovate in outline, trisect to the base; 
segments (true leaves) pinnatisect to the base; segments 
crowded, linear-oblong, pinnatifidly acutely incised, dark 
green above, pale beneath; petiole (a branch or secondary 
axis) of the lower leaves three inches long or more, very 
stout, connate with, or in the axil of a linear membranous 
sheath. Flowers two inches in diameter, shortly stoutly 
peduncled, golden-yellow, white, rose-colrd., or bright red. 
Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, greenish or brownish dor- 
sally. Petals twenty to fifty, rather longer than the sepals, 
narrowly oblong-obovate, or subspathulate, tip rounded 
entire or erose. Stamens very many, about one-third the 
length of the petals; anthers small, oblong, yellow. Carpels 
in a globose head, subglobose, pubescent; style as long as 
the ovary, recurved ; ripe carpels globose, densely pubes- 
cent, style uncinate and recurved on the ovary.—J. D, H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, carpels :—both enlarged ; 3, flower from the plate in the 
Fu Ku Jus6 Schin Dsu, of the natural size, 
