NAT. ORDER. 

 Hanujiculacece. 



ANEMONE PRATENSIS. , PASQUE FLOWER. 



Class XII. POLTANDRIA. OrdcT VI. POLYGNIA. 



Gen. Char. Calyx none. Petals six or nine. Seeds many. 



Spe. Char. Peduncles involucred. Petals straight. Leaves bipin- 



nate. 



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The root of Anemone is perennial, short, and sends off several 

 strong fibres ; the floxcer-stem is smooth, covered with soft hairs, near 

 the top furnished with a laciniated involucrum, and rises from six to 

 eight inches in height ; the leaves are radicle and bipinnated ; the seg- 

 ments are narrow, short, linear, and of a glaucous green color ; it has 

 no calyx ; the petals are six, oblong, hairy, of a dark purple color, 

 and their apices turned backwards ; the plaments are numerous, slen- 

 der, about half the length of the petals, and furnished with yellow an- 

 thers ; the germens are numerous, collected into a bundle, and sup- 

 plied with long styles, terminated by tapering blunt stigmas ; the seeds 

 are placed on the common receptacle, and retain their styles, which, 

 when the seed goes off^ resemble long downy tails. 



This species of the Anemone is a native of Germany, where it 

 grows wild in open fields, producing its flowers in May and June. 

 Woodville informs us that " it was first cultivated in England by Mr. 

 Miller, in 1731, both as an ornament and for medicinal purposes. Il 

 very much resembles the Anemone Pulsatila, which grows wild in this 

 country, and would doubtless prove a good substitute so far as legards 

 its medical qualities. This plant, in its recent state, has but very little 



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