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plant, covered with a thick down of silvery hairs, 

 which lend a peculiar beauty to this, and several 

 kindred species. The carpels also, are very hand- 

 some with their long hairs and silver down. The 

 plant attains considerable height, and specimens we 

 have gathered have measured from 12-16 inches. 

 It is much larger in growth than an English pasque 

 flower (Anemone Pulsatilla), which we may also look 

 for in Switzerland on the borders of woods ; it is, 



beauty ; indeed the fields covered with A. sulplurea, 

 near the village of Simplon are worth the expedition 

 up the pass to see. 



Anemone Baldensis is a small species, having a 

 single longish stem, and white flower of 7-8 sepals, 

 and delicately cut leaves chiefly radical, but leaflets 

 clasping the stem. 



In order to clearly express the different species, we 

 give the following classification. 



Fig. 63. — Anemone Pulsatilla, L. 



Fig. 64. — Anemone Montana, Hoppe. 



however, of humble growth, averaging a few inches 

 in height, and having the sepal reversed at the tip. 

 Less common, and at a greater altitude Anemone 

 Halleri (DC.) is found, having lilac sepals ; standing 

 erect, and more hoary-looking than A. montana, 

 which, however, it resembles. Any of the three last 

 species may occasionally be found with white sepals. 

 A. vemalis is a lovely plant. We have found it in 

 April and May some' 3000 feet above the sea. The 

 leaves are all radical, the whole plant is hairy, with 

 an involucre of linear, downy segments immediately 

 beneath the white sepals which are exquisitely 

 shaded on the back. The narcissus-like anemone is 

 plentiful on grassy slopes from 2000 to 3000 feet 

 above the sea, flowering in May. The large Alpine 

 anemone and its sulphur-coloured variety may be 

 found in May and June on the Simplon in great 



Genus Anemone (L.). 



Sepals 5-10, coloured ; petals, none ; stamens, 

 numerous ; carpels, 1 -seeded ; usually an involucrum 

 of cut leaves. 



o. Leaves radical, stem furnished with involucrum, 

 carpels plumed. 



1. A. alpina (L.). Involucrum leaf-like ; short 

 pedicel ; large flower ; solitary, white sepals ; plant 

 hairy ; leaves deeply cut and divided. 



2. A. sulphured (L.). Regarded by many botanists 

 as a variety of A. alpina ; plant hoary, and covered 

 with white hairs ; sepals sulphur colour ; involucrum 

 slighter than the previous one, but also tripartite. 



3. A. vcrnalis (L.). A beautiful plant covered with 

 hairs ; involucrum close below the single flower, 



