POLYANDRIA— POLYGYXIA. Anemone. 35 



thought ihtjlowers dioecious ; but such casual imperfection in 

 those parts is frequent in plants that increase much by root. 

 The Stratiotes fills our ditches in summer, with a close phalanx 

 of sword-like leaves, wlience its name, from s-py.rog, an army, 

 m Dioscorides, whose description cannot be mistaken, though 

 Dr. Sibthorp did not notice this plant in Greece, any more than 

 the Sagittaria, which some commentators have mistaken for it. 

 See Matt/i. Valgr. v. 2. 482, 483. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA, 

 275. ANEMONE. Anemone. 



Lin7i.Gen.279. Juss.232. Fl. Br. dSO. Tourn.t.l47. La7n.i.496. 



Gcertn. t. 74. DeCand. Sijst. v. \. 188. 

 Pulsatilla. Tourn.t. 148. Seeds with feathery tails. 

 Anemonoides. Dill. Gen. 107.^4. Seeds simply pointed. Petals 6. 

 Anemone-ranunculus. Ibid. t. 4. Seeds simply pointed. Petals 5. 



Nat. Ord. Mult i sill qiuE, Linn. 26. Ranunculacece, Juss. 61. 

 See n. 270—273. 



Cal. none. Pet. from 5 to 15, inferior, regular, in one or 

 more rows, imbricated in the bud, elliptical or oblong, 

 deciduous. Filam. numerous, capillary, much shorter 

 than the corolla. Anth. terminal, of 2 round lobes, burst- 

 ing laterally. Germ, superior, numerous, collected into 

 a round or oblong head. Styles tapering, short. Stigmas 

 simple, bluutish. Seeds numerous, pointed, tipped with 

 the permanent styles, which in some species become fea- 

 thery tails. 



Herbs with tuberous roots. Stem none. Leaves stiilked, 

 more or less divided or compound. Fl. solitary or ag- 

 gregate, scentless, on radical stalks, with a leaty involu- 

 cnwi, or bractea, more or less remote from the flower. 

 Corolla blue, purplish, red, white, or yellow, very va- 

 riable. 



1. A. Pulsatilla. Pasque-flower Anemone. 



Flower soliUiry, nearly upright. Involucrum in dt^^p li- 



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