Puate LI. 
ANEMONE coronarta, Linn. ; var. B. cyanea, Ardoino. 
Natural Order RanuncuLACER. 
Grn. Cuar.—See description of Plate I. Part I. 
Spec. Cuar.—Flower solitary, purplish-blue. Leaves of involucre 
finely divided, sessile. Sepals 5-7. Leaves finely divided into linear 
cuneate-lanceolate segments. 
Anemone coronaria, B. cyanea, Ardoino. Fl. Alpes Mar. p. 12. A. 
cyanea, Risso, Fl. de Nice, p. 7. A. coronarioides, Hanry (ex Ardoino, 
i¢.). 
Haszirat.—Castellar, near Mentone, where I gathered these speci- 
mens in January, 1865. 
Remarxs.—The different varieties of Anemone coronaria, Linn., or 
Parsley-leaved Anemone, are but slightly characterized, yet several 
forms have been distinguished, and even raised to the rank of species. 
In certain localities particular forms grow to the exclusion of others, 
and constitute there marked colonies. The facility with which these 
plants are multiplied by division of their rootstocks tends to preserve 
the different races, some of which are, owing to their sterility, very de- 
pendent upon this mode of propagation. At Mentone I have never 
been able to procure good seed from any variety of A. coronaria, Linn. 
Along the Riviera both this plant and A. hortensis, 6. fulgens, Gren. et 
Godr., are principally to be found in cultivated terraces and olive 
yards. 
Though now generally admitted as a native of France and Italy, we 
are told by M. Alph. De Candolle,* that Anemone coronaria, Linn., has 
probably spread westward from Greece, Constantinople, and Asia Minor 
within recent times, as it was excluded from the lists of indigenous 
plants given by ancient authors. Near Bologna, however, Bertoloni 
(Fl. Ital. v. 456) describes the wild hillsides as being full of scarlet, 
purple, and white varieties of A. coronaria, Linn. ! 
On the Turbit Mountain, near Mentone, a few terraces are occupied 
by a variety having pale whitish flowers streaked with purplish-pink, 
and remarkable for having the bases of the sepals so much curved that 
the flower is quite cupped inwards below. The leaves also have a pecu- 
liar appearance, and this variety has been distinguished as a species (A. 
rosea, Hanry). I have received specimens every spring during the last 
six years from this locality, and the form certainly remains true. 
* Alph. De Candolle, ‘ Qéographie Botanique,’ ii. 637. 
