PLATE IV. 



1. ANEMONE HORTENSIS. 



STAR ANEMONE. 



This genus comprehends several plants of the tuberous-roolecl 

 flowery ornamental kind; being perennial in their roots, but annual 

 in their slems and flowers. 



It belongs to the class and order Poli/andria Polt/gi/uia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of MultisiUqua. 



The characters are: that it has no calyx; that the corolla has 

 petals in two or three rows, three in a row, somewhat oblong: the 

 stamina have numerous filaments, capillary, half the length of the 

 corolla: the anthers twin and erect: the pislillum has numerous 

 germs in a head, the styles acuminate, and the stigmas obtuse: no 

 pericarpiiun : the receptacle globular or oblong, hollowed, and dot- 

 led: the seeds very many, acuminate, retaining the style. 



The species are very numerous; but tliose that most deserve the 

 Cultivator's attention in the Anemone kind are: 1. A. coronaria. Nar- 

 row-leaved Garden Anemone; 2. A.hortensis, Broad-lcavcd Garden 

 Anemone; 3. A. nonorosa. Wood Anemone; 4. A. apcmiina, Moun- 

 tain-blue Wood Anemone; 5. Ji. ranunculoidcs, Yellow-MOod Ane- 

 mone. 



In the fust species the flower-stems rise between the leaves im- 

 niediatelj' from the roots, two, three, or more from the same root, to 

 the height of eight, ten, or twelve inches, having a leaf}' appendage 

 or involucrum a little above the middle. The radical leaves are 

 deeply divided into numerous segments, which are subdivided by 

 threes into many narrow divisions. At the top each stem is adorned 

 with a flower, which in the double sorts is large and very ornamentah 



