ANEMONE 5 



liead-quarters of A. PulsatiUa, PampHn. Moulsford Downs, 

 Bennett, in Journ. Bot. 1873, 139 ! 



4. Kennet. Found on the border of a chalky ploughed field in the 

 open country between Wickham and Kintbury, Miss Boiven. 



The Pasque Flower occurs in L._T'kshire over a small area, where 

 it is by no means continuous, but-ris found in scattered patches, 

 which are more frequent on the slopes than on the tops of the 

 chalk downs. I believe that it does not grow on ground that is 

 above 400 or less than 200 feet above the sea. Some, if not all, 

 of the specimens belong to the var. A. tenuifoUa, Schleicher, in which, 

 as the name implies, the leaves are more finely cut. Eeichenbach 

 in Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. iv. fig. 4657, called it Pulsatilla vulgaris, var. 

 angnstisecta. The description in Turner's Herball points to A. Nemorosa, 

 but the figure is A. Pulsatilla. 



Anemone Pulsatilla reaches its southern limit in Berkshire ; it is found 

 in Gloucestershire, and formerly occurred in Oxfordshire, but is not 

 recorded for the other bordering counties. 



In the Flora of Oxfordshire the genus Pulsatilla is kept distinct from 

 that of Anemone., the chief distinction being that the former has feathery 

 styles, while in the latter the styles are short and not conspicuously 

 feathery. In the present work Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum 

 has been followed, in which the two genera are united under the name of 

 Anemone. 



A. Nemorosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 541 (1753). Wood Anemone, Wind-floicer. 

 Anemone nemorwn cdba, Ger. Em. 383 (1633). Nemoi-osus Ranunculus, 

 Lobel. Ic. 673 (1581). 



Top. Bot. 4. Syme, i. 12, t. 11. Baxt. t. 43. Nyman, 3. Fl. Oxf. 2. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, hedgebanks, and bushy places, preferring 

 slightly shaded places. Generally distributed and very abundant 

 in the woods and coppices of the Oolite and the Chalk. P. 

 Feb.-May. 

 First recorded by Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Var. MULTIPLEX, Seringe, a double-flowered form, has been observed 

 in Bagley Wood and other places. Var. purpurea, DC, Fl. Fr. v. 884 

 (1815) ; E. B. Suppl. 6, occurs frequently with the type, but the 

 var. coERULEA, DC, I.e., with the flowers of a uniform pale blue 

 colour (which occurs in Surrey), has not been observed by me 

 in Berkshire. The leaves are frequently infested with Puccinea 

 anemonea, which Dr. Hill in the British Herbal, 12, described as the 

 eggs of a small winged insect. This fungus-infected leaf Dillenius 

 figured and described in Bay's Synopsis, ed. 3, 124, as a new species 

 of fern. The original leaf at one time was preserved in the Oxford 

 Herbarium, 



Baxter in Phaenogamous Botany, n. 43 (1834), says that ^a beautiful 



