ANEMONE. 
along the Pyrenees; the Alps of Provence, Dauphiné, and Savoy ; 
Bex, Oberland, and Fribourg ; Salzburg, Great Glockner, and through 
the Dolomites away to Herzegovina and Transylvania. It seems in- 
different as to its rock and soil (though specially common and hearty 
in the Dolomites), and never descends from its high elevations. It is 
a most characteristic and recognisable prize, running about profusely 
underground among the stones, and sending up, every here and 
there, dainty barren tufts of fine dark curly leaves rather like those of 
Pig-nut. Much more sparsely from these come up the graceful stems 
of 5 or 6 inches, the frill a long way below the solitary beautiful white 
flower (often bluish at the back), which has many oval sepals and an 
eye of gold, looking almost like a broad-rayed single Chrysanthemum. 
When this is over the stem grows taller, and the seed forms into close 
and oval woolly heads not unlike a strawberry in general effect, with 
the points of the carpels just coming through to finish off the picture 
by suggesting the seeds. Unfortunately A. baldensis is often paradoxi- 
cally difficult and unsatisfactory in cultivation, for a habit that seems 
to promise such weedlike readiness and vigour. Its best chance will 
probably be in a very earthy moraine, with a few large coarse blocks 
buried in it and water flowing below. In America its place is taken 
by A. Drummondii. 
A. barbulata, from China, is a half-sized version of the pleasant 
and useful A. pennsylvanica, q.v. 
A. Berlandiert. See under A. caroliniana. 
A. biflora is a hairless thing from Kashmir, attaining some 8 inches, 
with two flowers of a dull red. 
A. blanda decks all the islands and coasts of the Eastern Medi- 
terranean in a sheet of colour with the first breath of returning spring. 
It is a small bulbous plant, like a neater, dwarfer, fleshier-leaved 
A. apennina, with flowers much larger, tidier and more brilliant (like ~ 
huge single daisies, neat-rayed, with a minute golden centre), and 
ranging through every lovely colour from the normal brilliant soft 
blue (often with a clear white eye), through the blandest pinks and 
richest purples, to pure white. And all forms will spring up in thf 
garden from a single importation out of the Levant. There is also 
a striking variety called A. blanda var. scythinica, in which the stalwart 
flowers are blue outside and white within. A. blanda is a very much 
compacter grower than A. apennina, and never forms into wide and 
crowded clumps; therefore, being so small and so early, and so 
quickly dying down out of the way as soon as it has finished taking 
the winds of March with beauty, it should be promoted to the very 
choicest and sunniest places (for so do its stars most readily open), at 
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