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ANEMONE* vitifdlia. 

 Vine -leaved Anemone. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat.ord. Ranunculace;e /mss. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 6.) 



ANEMONE.— Supr^y vol. 3. fol. 200. 



A. vitifolia ; foliis rotundato-cordatis, 5-7-lobis, subtiis cauleque adpresse 

 lanuginosis, radicalibus longe petiolatis ; involucellis subsessilibus tri- 

 fidis ; sepalis ovalibus exti\s sericeis ; pistillis supern^ glabris ; caryo- 

 psidibus pedicellatis, muticis, densissime lanuginosis. — Wall. MSS. 



A. vitifolia. Buchanan apud Decand. syst. nat. 1. 2?. 211. EJusd. prodr. 



1./3.21. 



Herba erecta, parce ramosa, "2-3-pedalis, basi suffruticosa, dum junior 

 lanugine Candida, adpressd dense vestita, estate glabrior. Radix perpen- 

 dicularis, suhfusiformis, fert lignosa, Jibrillosa, vestigiis frequentibus aridis 

 basium petiolorum squamota. Caulis scepius unicus, nunc duo tresve, tercs^ 

 bis terve subdichotome divisus, basi penuam cygneam, quin digitum minimum 

 crassus, supernc attenuatus, ramique erecti, elongati, graciles, nudi, villis 

 longis, adpressis, subdeciduis obsiti. Folia radicalia plura, erecta, longe 

 petiolata, palmaria, circumscriptione orbiculato-cordata, 6'7-loba, lobis in- 

 cequalibus, acutis, nunc ohiusis, incise- et cuspidato-denticulatis, basis magnis 

 rotundalis, conniventibus, supra nitida, fere glabra, saturate viridia, parum 

 bullata, subttis niveo-tomentosa, vel lanuginosa, multinervia, grosse et pro- 

 minenter reticulato-venosa ; caulina infra divisuras subverticillata, involu- 

 criformia, patentia, breve petiolata, vel subsessilia, incequalia, 5-polUcaria, 

 3-5-loba, lobis ovatis, subacuminatis. Petioli canaliculati, basi dilatatd 

 amplexantes ; radicates graciles, pedales, sesquipedalesve. Pedunculi ter- 

 minates, teretes, erecti, cylindrici, villosi, scepius tres, aliquandh plures, 

 quorum medii trijidi, medio involucellati , trifiori, reliqui unifiori, 3-5-polli- 

 cares, fructiferi longiores. Involucellum constans foliolis pollicaribus, 

 subsessilibus, trijidis, serratis. Flores magni, patentissimi, diametro fere 

 2-pollicari, ex albo dilutissimc flavescentes, extus sericeo-villosi, pallide 

 violacei. A\3.ha?,tra globosa, valde sericea. Sepala sex, interdum octo, ovalia, 

 obtusa, fere pollicaria, patentissima, subcequalia, bases interiorum leviter 



* Anemone, or avii^mri, literally signifies wind-flower, from avif/.o^;, wind. 

 Its origin, they say, was from the tears of Venus ; A/^os poSov t/»ts<, ru, "hi 

 ^oIk^vcc Tiiv <itvsju,mxv ; (from her blood sprung the Rose ; from her tears the 

 Anemone.) The plant of the ancients was the modern Anemone coronaria. 



