The Anemone xarcififiora, although rarely met with in out 
colleétions, is a very common plant on the high mountains, in_ 
the South of Europe; and in Siberia, according'to Gme.in, 
from the river lanifi nearly to the 54th degree of Northern lati- 
tude. We have feen dried {pecimens alfo from Mount Caucafus, 
Is faid by*Ciusius to be {weet-fcented, which we could not 
perceive. This plant varies very much in ftature and in the 
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fize of its flowers; and the Anemone fa/ciculata of the Species 
_ Plantarum is one of thefe varieties. _Moft probably too, Cxv- 
sius’s Ranunculus montanus with a purple flower, above 
quoted, which he had not feen himfelf, but received the de- 
{cription and drawing of it from his friend Dr. Tuomas 
Penny, of London, is another variety ; but if fo, the calyx, 
which appears below the flower in the figure, muft be an — 
error. Our plant has frequently petals ftained with purple — 
on the outfide, efpecially when paft its prime. - It is one of 
the moft fhewy of the alpine plants, prefers a moift fituation | 
and bog earth. Introduced to this country in 1773, by the late 
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Earl of Butz. Flowers in April and May, . Communicated 
by Mr. Loppiczs. : | 
