468 ORD. XXVI. Mulltisilique. 
ANEMONE PRATENSIS. MEADOW ANEMONE ; 
Or, PASQUE FLOWER. 
SYNONYMA. Pulsatilla nigricans. Pharm. Edinb. Pulsatilla 
flore minore nigricante. Bauh. Pin. p. 177.  Pulsatilla flore 
minore. Gerard. Emac. p. 386. Pulsatilla yulgaris, saturatiore 
flore. Clus. Hisi. i. p. 246. Pulsatilla flore clauso obsoleto, 
petalis reflexis. Helw. puls. p. 65. 4.11. Pulsatilla foliis de- 
compositis pinnatis, flore pendulo, limbo reflexo. Hort. Cliff: 
223. <A. pratensis. Flor. Dan. 611. 
Class Polyandria. Ord. Polygynia. in. Gen. Plant. 694. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 0. Petala 6-9. Sem. plura. 
Sp. Ch. A pedunculo involucrato, petalis apice reflexis, foliis 
bipinnatis. 
THE root is perennial, thick, short, and sends off several strong 
fibres: the flower stem is smooth, beset with soft hairs, near the 
top furnished with a laciniated involucrum, and rises about six or 
eight inches in height: the leaves are radical, bipinnated ; seg- 
ments narrow, short, linear, and of a glaucous green colour: it 
has no calyx: the petals are six, oblong, hairy, of a blackish 
purple colour, and their apices are turned backwards; the fila- 
ments are numerous, slender, about half the length of the petals, 
and furnished with yellow anthera: the germens are numerous, 
collected into a bundle, and supplied with long styles, terminated 
by tapering blunt stigmata: the seeds are placed on the common 
receptacle, and retain their styles, which, when the seeds go off, 
resemble long downy tails. 
This Anemone is a native of Germany, where it grows in open 
fields, and flowers in May. It was first cultivated in England by 
Mr. Miller in 1731, and as we now find it in our gardens, it very 
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