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Anemone Sylvestris. 
An e mo ny. 
Snowdrop 
Clafs and Order. 
POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 
Generic Character. 
Calyx nullus. Petala 6 — 9. Semina plura. 
Specific CharaBtr and Synonyms. 
ANEMONE Jylveftris pedunculo nudo, feminibus fubrotundis, 
hirfutis, muticis. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. p. 510. 
ANEMONE fylveftris alba major. Bauh. Pin. p. 176. 
The white wild broad-leafed Wind-Flower. Park. Par . 202. 
Parkinson very accurately notices the finking charaflers 
of this fpecies of Anemone, which are its creeping roots, its 
large white flowers (landing on the tops of the flower-ftalks, 
which fometimes grow two together, but mod commonly 
fingly ; the leaves on the ftalk, he obferves, are more finely 
divided than thofe of the root, and its feeds are woolly. 
Miller defcribes it as having little beauty, and therefore 
but feldom planted in gardens ; it is true, it does not recom- 
mend itfelf by the gaudinefs of its colours, but there is in the 
flowers, efpecially before they expand, a fimple elegance, 
fomewhat like that of the Snowdrop, and which alfords a 
pleafing contrail to the more fhewy flowers of the garden. 
It flowers in May, and ripens its feeds in Tune. 
It will grow in almofl any foil or fituation, is propagated 
by offsets from the root, which it puts out molt plentifully, 
fo as indeed fometimes to, be troublefome. Is a native of 
Germany, 
