ANEMONE. 
the edge of little shrubs, or among such things as will spring up later, 
and never mind its evanescent lovely company, with which it indulges 
them freely by seeding copiously all over the place. 
A. borealis. See under A. parviflora. 
A. Bungeana comes from Siberia, and is rather like a smaller 
version of A. albana, with shorter stem and nearly erect purple flowers, 
appearing at the same time as the leaves, woolly with a pressed-down 
coat of white hairs, and narrow shorter jags. 
A. caerulea is so called because it is hardly ever blue. None the 
less it is a charming woodland delicacy from Siberia, almost exactly 
like our yellow A. ranunculoeides, but that its blossoms are of a tender 
and opalescent pinky colour. 
A. canadensis is a synonym for A. pennsylvanica, q.v. 
A. carolimana is a delicate frail tuft also, akin to A. decapetala, 
with each division of the leaves always having a little stalk to itself. 
The stem is weak, about 6 inches high, with the frill far down, and 
then a single flower, of eight to ten purply-white sepals, large and 
attractive. This is a North-American woodlander, soothing in its 
silkiness; A. Berlandieri is dwarfer and stouter and hairier, with the 
jags of the foliage oval and not sharply narrow. 
A. cernua, from Japan, is a member of the Pulsatilla group, but 
quite unattractive as I have seen it—a leafy dulness, with tall stems 
each carrying one nodding flower, much too small, narrow in outline, 
and of a sombre dirty-claret colour. 
A. coronaria, on the contrary, gives very nearly the finest scarlet in 
the whole range of hardy plants. It is the great fiery Anemone of the 
Mediterranean coast, with the comparatively few broad oval sepals, 
looking like some enriched and well-bred Poppy. It diverges into 
innumerable other colour-forms, however, in cultivation, to say no- 
-thing of its much smaller and dwarfer violet variety which is so 
much commoner nowadays in the fields behind Cannes. And of the 
vast hybrid race of Coronarias the rock-garden may hold itself ex-— 
cused ; even though splendid, they are galumphing and inappropriate 
there. With regard to the gorgeous wild type, no rules beyond those 
of full sun and light loam can be given. For if A. coronaria approves 
your soil and climate it will make itself a weed ; if for some unknown 
reason it dislikes your neighbour’s similar garden next door, nothing 
will induce it to do anything but dwindle and mimp away year by 
year and die. It exacts full value for its astounding beauty in the 
way of a regal beauty’s conceded capriciousness. 
A. cylindrica turns out to be a really worthless weed, with flowers 
of a feeble yellowish-green, carried singly on long naked foot-stalks. 
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