A form with small double pink and greenish flowers is not uncom- 
mon, and is probably the result of cultivation upon A. rosea, Hanry. 
This is the var. y. Rissoana of Ardoino. It would be a matter of some 
interest to collect and figure all the varieties and subvarieties which grow 
along the coast, as many have probably been overlooked. I have, for 
_ Instance, observed a subvariety of the variety figured, which constantly 
reappears on the property of Carnoules, near Mentone, with flowers of 
a peculiar and very rich purple. There are also scarlet and purple-blue- 
flowered varieties, which may be recognized by their leaves alone, the 
segments being much broader than those of the form figured. In the 
fields of Mouans, near Cannes, several very fine varieties grow, some 
with double flowers being of especially gorgeous colours. It is a matter 
of wonder to me that these beautiful plants are not introduced into the 
public gardens of the health stations of the Riviera, where they would 
certainly give great pleasure to the visitors. 
Till lately I believed that the double forms of Anemone were only to 
be found in cultivated ground; but I have since heard from the Rev. T. 
Butler that he has gathered double-flowered specimens of A. sulphurea, 
Linn. (now generally considered a mere variety of A. alpina, Linn.), 
between Saas and the Mte. Moro, in a thoroughly wild habitat. He 
says, “It grew just where the glacier crosses the valley and forms the 
Matmark See by damming up the stream” (a tributary of the Visp). 
The surrounding ground was alpine in its nature and “the staple 
commodities were Gentians, Viola calcarata, Anemone alpina and sul- 
phurea, stones edged with Ranunculus alpestris and plants of that 
class.” 
Mr. Butler was kind enough to send me a specimen of this double 
Anemone for inspection. The flower consisted of five sepals of the 
normal broadly ovate shape, and within these of a hemispherical mass 
of linear-lanceolate segments, all very silky on the back, as were the 
sepals. In herbaria I have often seen double-flowered specimens of A. 
nemorosa, Linn., but always from botanic gardens. 
Dr. Seemann (Journ. of Bot. ii. 1864, pp. 176-187 and 318) enume- 
rates a large number of plants which present double flowers, but these 
probably are nearly all garden examples. However, plants of several 
kinds have been observed presenting double flowers in truly wild sta- 
tions ; for example, I have a specimen of Anagallis tenella, Linn., the 
flowers of which are double, gathered in co. Kerry by Dr. Ch. Bat- 
tersby. 
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