NATURAL ORDER RANUNCULACEZ. 
Tribe—ANEMONES. Section of genus Anemone, having carpels without 
tails, and bracts of the involucre sessile. 
Puate I.—Anemone pavonina. De Candolle, inclusive of B— Woods, 
inclusive of B— Anemone hortensis B. y. of Grenier and Godron. 
Generic.— Petals 0. Calyx petaloid, generally of from 5 to 15 sepals. 
Inwolucre three-leaved, distant from flower. 
Speciric.—Carpels woolly. Sepals scarlet, either 10 or more in the 
single form, but as the flower becomes more double, the sepals take a 
narrower form, till when the stamens are obliterated, they are linear 
lanceolate. Jnvolucre sessile, of three lobes, either notched or entire. 
Leaves radical, divided into three wedge-shaped lobes, more or less cut at 
the edges. 
EXPLANATION OF Pxiate.—Plate I. represents the extreme forms 
under which this plant is found at Mentone, and it is well to remark 
that every possible stage may be observed between the two. 
Remarxs.—I believe that some most competent observers have shown 
that this plant is not distinct from the lilac variety figured at Plate IT., 
and I am told that the variety Anemone versicolor (Jordan), which is 
found at Grasse, completely re-unites them. It is rather remarkable 
that here, and at Nice, where A. pavonina is of more variable form than 
elsewhere, the colour remains, as far as I can learn, quite true and 
unchanged, There is another Scarlet Anemone to be found here, but 
that may be at once distinguished by its leaves, which are so finely cut 
as to have earned it the name of the Parsley-leaved A. ; it moreover 
lacks the fine yellow ring which surrounds the stamens of the present 
species. The specimens from which I have drawn were gathered in the 
Turin Valley in the early part of March. Their time of flowering is 
from the beginning of February to the end of March. I have never seen 
this plant growing at any distance from cultivated ground, where it soon 
becomes a well-established weed. 
