NAT. ORDER, 

 Ranunculacea. 



ANEMONE HORTENSIS. BROAD-LEAVED GARDEN ANEMONE. 



Class XIII. POLYANDRIA. Ord&T VI. POLYGNIA. 



Gen Char. Involucre, three cut-leaves, distant from the flower. 

 Calyx of five to fifteen petal-like, colored sepals. Petals wanting. 



Spe. Char. Leaves ternate. Segments multifid. Lobules, linear, 

 mucronated. Leaves of the involucrum sessile, multifid. Se- 

 pals six, oval. 



The stems of this plant, when under a slate of cultivation, rise 

 from ten to fifteen inches in height. The root-leaves appear to be of 

 two kinds : one very deeply gashed, so much that they have the 

 appearance of being five-fingered, but are in reality tiu-ce parted, the 

 side-lobes being two-parted to the very base; all the lobes are nar- 

 row and sliarp ; the side ones deeply bifid, the" middle ones trifid or 

 quadrifid, the extreme ones sharply lanceolate — the other kind 

 broad, deeply three-lobed, blunt, bluntly and shortly serrate at tiie 

 tip, with an awn standing out; the leaf on the stem, or involucre, is 

 ternate ; the Icajlets ovate, lanceolate ; the peduncle is solitary and 

 one-flowered ; the i^ctcds three times three (in the natural flowers), 

 long, elliptic, marked with lines, the outer ones subhirsute on the 

 outside, white at the base with green lines ; the roots consist of small 

 white fibres, which are tuberous. 



There are numerous varieties of this species, both with single and 

 double flowers : the single and double Yellow ; the Purple Star 

 Anemone, darker and paler ; Violet Purple ; Purple-striped ; Car- 

 nation ; Gredeline, between a peach color and a violet ; Cochenille, 

 of a fine reddish violet or purple ; Cardinal, of a rich crimson red ; 

 Blond-red, of a deeper, but not so lively a red; Crimson ; Stamcll, 

 near unto a scarlet ; Incarnadine, of a fine delayed red or flesh-color ; 



Vol. iv.— 9G. 



