ANEMONE. 
A. dahurica is quite close to A. pratensis, if not indeed a pink- 
flowered form. 
A. decapetala, from North America, has three-lobed root-leaves, 
rather hairy, each of them heart-shaped-oval in outline, and deeply 
cut into three divisions. The flowers are bluey-white, on foot-stalks 
of varying length. (Woods.) 
A. demissa, a Chinese form of A. narcissiflora, q.v. ae 
A. Drummondii replaces A. baldensis at great elevations in the 
Rockies. It is a lovely little stranger, suggesting a glorified and snow- 
white Winter-aconite; and should be grown in the select moraine, 
or in rich peaty soil very full of chips, with water flowing beneath. 
A. elongata is much to be desired. It dwells in Nepal and Gar- 
whal at 16,000 feet, and attains a height itself of 2 or 3 feet, being, 
exactly, a diminished and more dainty. version of beautiful A. rivularis, 
with large soft foliage, and tall loose showers of small bluey-white 
stars. These both require cool rich soil, and specially love the bog, 
where they throw up their radiating heads (the flower-stems more 
drawn out in A. elongata) towards later summer, when flowers alto- 
gether are far and few in the rock-garden, and Anemones still further 
-and fewer. 
A. Falconeri, from the Himalaya, is a Hepatica with a genuine 
stalk, 
A. Fanninit is the giant of the family, a vast and leafy six-footer 
from Africa, with enormous leafage, and whity-blue flowers quite 
insignificant in comparison with the size of the plant. Up to a 
certain point A. Fanninii is fairly hardy, in a rich sheltered border ; 
but, though interesting, it is hardly worth the pains of purchase or 
care. 
A. flaccida does not at all deserve its name. In point of fact, it is 
a stout and stalwart small beauty of much charm from the mountain 
woods of Japan. Its little leaves are thick and almost fleshy, not 
unlike miniatures of a common buttercup’s, with characteristic pale 
touches at the base of the shallowish lobes into which they are cut. 
The stems, it is true, decline a little, but they are quite sound, not more 
than 3 or 4 inches long, with a beautiful pure-white flower, fine and 
ample for the proportions of the clump. 
A. flavescens comes very near to A. patens, from which it chiefly 
differs in having the leaves (which appear after the erect yellow 
blossoms) much more divided, but none of the divisions with any sort 
of stalk to itself. 
A. formosa is a name from Asia Minor, which seems to be the most 
attractive part of the obscurity it shelters. 
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