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Anemone Thalictroides. Meadow-Rue- 

 Leaved Anemone. 



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Chifs and Order. 



PoLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic CharaEler.—Vid. N um - 841. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ANEMONE thaliclroides ; floribus umbellatis, foliis caulinis 

 fimplicibus verticillatis, radicalibus, bitcrnatis. 

 Sp. PL 763. mild. v. 2. p. 1284. Mart. Mill. 

 DicJ. n. 28. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 257. 



ANEMONE tbaliflroides. Jujf. in Annates des Muf. v. 3. 

 p. 249. /. 23. /. 2. 



RANUNCULUS nemorofus, aquilegiae foliis, virginianus af- 

 pbodeli radice. Pluk. Aim. 310. /. 106. f. 4. 



THALICTRUM anemonoides ; pufillum : foliis radicalibus 

 biternatis : involucro petiolato fubhexaphyllo 

 et pedicellis aggregatis fcapos aphylios termi- 

 nantibus. Micbaux Flor. Bar. Am. v. 1. p. 322. 



Desc. Leaves radical, ereft, twice ternate : leaflets petioled, 

 cordate, fubtrilobed. Scape taller than the footftalk of the 

 leaf. Involucre generally of one, two, or three feflile leaves, 

 and five or fix on long footftalks ihaped like the radical leaf- 

 lets but fomewhat larger. Peduncles 1 — 5, collected in an 

 umbel, longer than the petioles of the involucre. Flowers 

 white, erect : Petals 4 — 8, elliptic, obtufe, foon falling off. 

 Stamens many, remaining after the fall of the petals, filaments 

 fhorter than corolla, inferted into the receptacle ; anthers 

 yellow, two-lobed. Ovaries feveral, oblong, ftriated : ftigma 

 feffile, hifpid. Seeds naked, ftriate. 



A dubious fpecies, but certainly agreeing in more points 

 with Anemone, than with Thali&rum. 



A native of North-America from Canada to Virginia, and 

 fufficiently hardy with refpeci to cold. Propagated by offsets 

 from the roots or by feed. Bloffoms in April. Cultivated by 

 Miller in 1768. Sent us by Mr. Loddiges of Hackney. 



