I 68 ANEMONE CAROLINIANA. CAROLINA ANEMONE. 



the plant is not very aptly chosen, as its range extends far 

 beyond the limits of the Carolinas. 



The root-structure of our species is worthy of a more com- 

 plete study than we have been able to give to it. As far as we 

 can ascertain, the travelling rhizoma, or rootstock, produces a 

 succession of small tubers, which throw up leaves, or leaves and 

 flowers, the season following that in which they were produced. 

 Generally, the tuber is formed by the thickening of the end of 

 the rhizoma, as in the potato. A rhizoma is really a stem, with 

 this difference only, — that instead of growing above, it grows 

 under ground. In the case of the potato, the thread-like growth 

 of the rootstock as soon as it has advanced six inches or so from 

 the parent stem, thickens, and forms a tuber, which we call a 

 potato ; but occasionally this tuber will start a new growth from 

 its apex the same season, which again thickens at its end, and 

 from this second tuber even a third rootstock sometimes strikes 

 out, which also forms a potato at its end, so that finally the whole 

 assumes something of the shape of a necklace, or of large beads 

 strung upon a string at certain intervals, the end, however, being 

 always a tuber. Our Anemone grows in the same way. On the 

 right-hand side of our drawing we see the remains of the root- 

 stock growth of last year, which connected with the plant of 

 that season. This, we believe, dies at the end of the year. We 

 see, also, that after making one small tuber our plant started to 

 make another, and as this second was stronger than the first, it 

 was able to make three flowers, while the first had but one. 

 On the left, we have the growth made since the last year's 

 tubers threw up their leaves and flowers, and this new root- 

 stock is also thickening for a tuber for the next season. 



The Carolina Anemone, if we may judge from its western 

 location, in a hot, dry region, will be very well adapted to garden 

 culture. In our own garden, it has taken good care of itself for 

 two years; and its bright, purple flowers, opening before the 

 first of May, among the many white flowers of that season, ren- 

 der its presence in the garden-border very desirable indeed. 



