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ANEMONE PRATENSIS. 



{jyieadoxv Anemone.) 



This Anemone is perennial, and a native of Ger- 

 many, where it grows in open fields, flowering in 

 May. It was first cultivated by Mr. Millar, in the 

 year 1 7-31 ;. and as we now find it in our gardens, it 

 very much resembles the Anemone Pulsatilla. The 

 principal distinctions between these species, as they 

 grow naturally, are taken from the flower, which in 

 the Anemone Pratensis is more pendulous, smaller, 

 of a darker colour, and has the apices of the petals 

 reflexed ; the stem, also, is less hairy and shorter 

 than that of the Pulsatilla. The Anemone, or Pasque 

 flower, so called from its flowering about Easter, 

 adorns some of our dry chalky hills with its beautiful 

 purple flowers. The garden Anemones, which are 

 so ornamental to the flower borders in the spring, 

 are only of two species, notwithstanding the variety 

 of their colours. Art, to increase their beauty, has 

 rendered them very large and double. 



Baron Stoerck has recommended this plant as an 

 effectual remedy for most diseases affecting the eye ; 

 and many German physicians have since tried its 



