38 FOLYANDlllA— POLYGYNIA. Anemone. 



R. neniorosus flore cseruleo^ duplex, Apcnnini montis. Mentz. Pii- 



gill. t. 8. 



In groves in the central part of England, but rare. 



In Wimbleton woods, (where it still grows) ; Mr. Rand. Near 

 Harrow; Mr. DuBois ; near Luton Hoc, Bedfordshire ; Mr.T, 

 Knowlton. Dillenius. Near Berkhamstead, Herts; Mr. Good- 

 all. M'llJiering. It supplies the place of the last species in every 

 grove and thicket of Italy, though not found in Switzerland; 

 and maybe truly wild in the situations above mentioned, which 

 are analogous to those where it abounds. There is only a bare 

 supposition of its having escaped from gardens, though Ray says 

 the Dutch gardeners obtained the roots from Italy. 



Perennial. April. 



Root tuberous, roundish. Habit like the last, but with rather 

 broader, richer, and more hairy foliage. Flower very elegant, 

 bright blue. I'd. about 12 to 1 G, spreading, lanceolate, blunt- 

 ish. Stdl/i above the leafy involucrum silky. The wooden cuts 

 above indicated are truly excellent. 



4. A. ranunculoides. Yellow Wood Anemone. 



Flowers solitary, or in jjuirs. Petals five, elliptical. Seeds 

 pointed, withont tails. Involucrum of three, somewhat 

 stalked, deeply cut, leaves. 



A. ranunculoides. Linn. Sp. PL 762. lVilM.v.2. 1282. Fl. Br. 582. 

 Engl. Bat. v.2\.t. 1484. Huds. 237. DeCand. Syst.v. 1 . 206. 

 Fl.Dan.t. 140. 



A. n. 1153. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 64. 



A. nemorum lutea. Ger. Bin. 383. f. Raii Hist. v. ]. 625. 



Ranunculus sylvestris luteus. Trag. Hist. 9b.f. withSJiowers. 



R. nemorosus luteus. Bauh. Pin. 178. Lob. Ic. 674./. 



Ranunculi tertia species. Cord. Hist. 120, ivith the cut of Tragus. 



R. quarta species lutea. Fuchs. Hist. 162. f. 



In groves, very rare. 



Near King's Lrmgley, Herts ; and Wrotham, Kent. Hudson. Near 

 Abbot's Langley. Mr. G. Anderson. 



Perennial. April. 



Root and herbage much like A. nemorosa, but the radical leaves are 

 few, often quinate. Involucral leaves 3, nearly sessile, ternate, 

 or quinate. Fl, 1 or 2, I have never seen more, on hairy par- 

 tial stalks. Pef. elliptical, obtuse, always bright yellow, and na- 

 turally 5, though the cut of Gerarde and Lobel has 6, which some- 

 times happens to the wild plant, as A. nemorosa has occasion- 

 ally 7. Seeds few, hairy, roundish, beaked. 



This having never, as far as can be learned from old writers, been 

 a garden plant in England, cannot safely be asserted to have 

 escaped from gardens. I have wild specimens from the excellent 

 author of the Flora Anglica, and from the late Mr. G, Ander- 



