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ANEMONE VITIFOLIA. VINE-LEAVED 
ANEMONE. 
KEE EEE EEE EEE EEE KEKE 
Class and Order. 
PoLyANnpRIA Po.Lyeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Involucrum trifolium a flore distans, foliolis incisis. Ca- 
lyx petaloideus, 5—15-sepalus. Petalao. De Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ANEMONE Vitifolia ; foliis rotundato-cordatis, 5—7-lobis sub- 
tus cauleque adpressé lanuginosis radicalibus longé 
petiolatis involucellis subsessilibus trifidis, sepalis ova- 
libus extus sericeis, pistillis superné glabris, caryop- 
sidibus pedicellatis, muticis densissimé lanuginosis. 
Wall. in Bot. Reg. 
Anemone vitifolia. Buchan. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 
21. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1385. 
The present is one of the few Anemones from Northern 
India that are cultivated in our gardens, to which it was in- 
troduced by Lord Amuerst. Dr. Watticn informs us that 
“it is one of the commonest, as well as most ornamental 
flower-plants in Nepal, where it grows in all the forests of 
the great valley, and the surrounding mountains, delighting 
in the most shady, retired, and moist situations in the vicin- 
ity of rills and torrents.” It is also found in Kamoun and 
in Gossam-Than, in the Himalaya. Our flowering speci- 
mens were sent in October, 1834, by Mr. N. Don, from 
Knyppersley Gardens, near Congletan, where they flourished 
in the open border. : 
Descr. Stem, in our plant, about a foot and a half high, 
(two to three feet high, according to Dr. Waxticn,) a 
nearly 
