Oriba. Adans. fam. 459. 

 (0.) flore pleno. 



Anemone hortensis Iatifolia, flore flavo dupficato. Hart. EjAt 

 ord. nern. 1. t. 18 Jig. 4. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 249./: 2. 

 (y.) minor, ^rlabrior, flore albido. 

 Anemone palmata. Bot. Repos. 172. Heic. No. 2079. 



This plant is in all its parts so much smaller and smoother 

 than the variety figured in the Botanical Register, as well as 

 so differently coloured both in the flowers and foliage, as to 

 lead to a doubt whether it may not be a distinct species. The 

 leaves of our plant are less distinctly lobed, very slightly vil- 

 lous, and of a deep violet colour on the under side, the flowers 

 on the inside only faintly tinged with yellow ; segments of 

 the involucrum much narrower, and with the scape smooth, 

 except that the latter was clothed towards the top with a 

 slight bronze-coloured villosity. 



The variety figured in the Botanist's Repository appears to 

 be the same as ours •. 



M. De Candolle is doubtful whether the double variety 

 mentioned by authors belongs to this species or to stellata, 

 but an inspection of Clusius's figure, and more especially 

 that in the Hortus Eystettensis, leaves no doubt in our minds. 



JNative of Portugal, Spain, Provence, and Barbary. 

 * lowers with us m April. Is too tender to succeed well with- 

 out protection from frost. Communicated by N. S Hodson, 

 bsq. of Bury St. Edmunds. 



i n *u\ l ^ MVS, } n his .5P ec j e ? n™tanm), placed Anemone palmata next 

 TnS2 T a , COnSldmd lt a l unitin S Anemone and Hep A tica of 

 JZZ r »• ,n | t0 °" e ? e " US; he afte ^ards however removed it into 

 another section along with coronaria and hortensis, to which it is undoubt- 



wt; V t Tv vl? y **!%' m \ Whcn VAHL S8ys that «»« cannot perceive 

 Z » V * mCa l P er > ca, y ce ^ liexapbvllum coloratum a flore rerao- 

 1 £» « a PP ears 4 , to have P" z ^d himself by the omission of the word uec ; 

 £ frnm th "V"' i "" a ™£«™otn S '', by which he meant to distinguish 

 hl/nl » Jnvolnerum. TJiat the outer petals have at least some resem- 



c ^n ?r, y f IS COn ^M >y Dbs P«NTAIN« 8 , who observes, thattb* 

 outer petals are larger and vdlous << calvcem mentientes" 



