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Spanish Icicariiate,of a lively flesh color, shadowed with yellow; Blush, 

 of a fair whitish red ; Nutmegge, of a dark whitish color, striped wnth 

 veins of a blush color ; Monk's-gray, pale w hitish, tending to a gray ; 

 Great Orange Tawnie ; Lesser Orange Tawnie. Of the great 

 double'varieties there are, the great double Anemone of Constanti- 

 nople, or Spanish Marigold ; great double Orange Twarnie ; double 

 Anemone of Cyprus ; double Persian Anemone ; the common great 

 double Variable Anemone; common double and variegated Scarlet; 

 Red and Purple ; variegated of these sorts. The best Star Ane- 

 mones are said to come from Brittainy, where they raise yearly a 

 great variety of sorts. 



Anemone coronaria. Narrow-leaved Garden Anemone. In this 

 species the flower-stems rise between the leaves immediately from 

 the roots, from the number of one and two to four and five from the 

 same root, to the height of from eight to twelve inches, having a leafy 

 appendage or involucrum a little above the middle ; the radical 

 leaves are a little divided into numerous .segments, which are subdi- 

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

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

 tal. It is a native of tlie Levant, where it grows single, but has 

 been rendered double by cultivation. 



The varieties are very numerous ; in the single sorts, the Watchet 

 or pale blue ; the common Purple ; the Scarlet, and many interme- 

 diate varieties. In the double kind.s, the common Double Red and 

 Scarlet ; the Parti-colored Crimson ; the Crimson Velvet ; the 

 great double Blush ; the White ; the Lesser Blush ; the Purple ; 

 the Blue ; the Rose-colored ; the Carnation ; the Purple Velvet of 

 three colors; the double Brimstone; the Green, &c. 



Anemone nemorosa. Wood-leaved Garden Anemone. In tiiis 

 species the root is-perennial and creeping ; the height of the whole 

 plant is only from five to ten inches ; the stem single, round and 

 pubscent ; bearing one leaf, and one flower; the leaf is doubly ter- 

 nate, each part being petioled ; the petiole is flat and broad, particu- 



