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inches in height : the leaves are radical, bipinnated; fegments narrow, 
fhort, linear, and of a glaucous green colour : it has no calyx : the 
petals are fix, oblong, hairy, of a blackifh purple colour, and their 
apices are turned backwards : the filaments are numerous, (lender, 
about half the length of the petals, and furniihed with yellow antherse : 
the germens are numerous, collected into a bundle, and fupplied with 
long ftyles, terminated by tapering blunt ftigmata : the feeds are placed 
on the common receptacle, and retain their flyles, which, when the 
feeds go off, refemble long downy tails. 
This Anemone is a native of Germany, where it grows in open 
fields, and flowers in May. It was firft cultivated in England by Mr. 
Miller in 1731, and as we now find it in our gardens, it very much 
refembles the Anemone Pulfatilla, a which grows wild in this country, 
and would doubtlefsly prove a good fubftitute for the A. pratenfis : the 
principal diftindions between thefe fpecies, as they grow naturally, are 
taken from the flower, which in the A. pratenfis is more pendulous, 
fmaller, of a darker colour, and has the apices of the petals re- 
flexed, the ftem alfo is faid to be lefs hairy, and fhorter than that of 
the Pulfatilla. b 
This plant, in its recent ftate, has fcarcely any fmell, but its tafte 
is extremely acrid, and when chewed, corrodes the tongue and fauces ; 
and the dried plant likewife ftill retains a confiderable fhare of acri- 
mony. It alfo appears from fome experiments to contain a eampho- 
raceous matter, which was obtained in the form of cryftals, of 
unduous tafte, and very inflammable 
This plant, like feveral others of great adivity, has been received 
into the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, upon 
the authority of Baron Stoerck, who recommends it as an effedual 
remedy for moft of the chronic difeafes aflfeding the eye, particularly 
amaurofis, catarad, and opacity of the cornea, proceeding from 
fln eiegant ipecimen of this plant is corre% figured in Englijh Botany, hV. e Xi 
through' t S^/lS^f 7 " refemWeS th " ^ — f ' ^ ™ f 4& 
*r,t W r e "^ alf ° u add » u P° n t r he authority of the Flor. Dan. that the leaves of the 
1^" ^^r" 1 ^ while thofe of the Puifatma are ° f a ^ ht *»• 
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See Harm, Mag. 1779. *• I0 5 
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