ANEMONE. 
but is a really distinct and pretty thing, about 6 inches or a foot high, 
with heads of white flowers branching into other heads again with 
three or four flowers to each. The root-leaves are not nearly so 
numerous as in A. decapetala, and are not leathery. It is called 
**Centella ’’ at home, and is used to raise blisters. 
A. Hepatica is an invaluable, stemless little woodlander of all the 
alpine woods that our gardens know hardly less well. It luxuriates 
in damp rich woodland soil, and forms, in time, huge clumps; and it 
acutely resents being divided and disturbed. It has countless coloured 
forms, and a very miffy and expensive double white. In the Southern 
Alps (especially) it seems to develop white marblings and blotchings 
most becoming to the dark-green leather of its smooth trilobed leaves 
(A. triloba is nothing else). From Eastern Europe comes a glorified 
form, much larger, much greener, much leafier, and with leaves in- 
clining to pucker into three hollows and then have scalloped edges. 
This is now raised to specific rank as A. angulosa, a recognition to 
which it is clearly entitled, though here it is more convenient to treat 
it under A. Hepatica, of which it has the habits, uses, and needs, though 
so much bigger in all its parts. The big beautiful blossoms are of 
Hepatica’s clear blue, but vary to named forms of darker or paler. 
They both flower with A. blanda, or even earlier; though A. angulosa 
tends to be a little later than Hepatica. 
A. hepaticaefolia, the Estrella of Valdivia (where it grows), has all 
its foliage at the base, and then a hairy stem of a foot or two, carrying 
a wide umbrella-shaped head of large pale yellow flowers. 
A. Hudsoniana is a synonym of A. multifida, q.v. 
A. hupehensis. See under A. japonica. 
A. japonica is the latest and one of the loveliest of our Anemones, 
and, though beautiful in all borders, has a grace so well-bred and 
oriental as to be perfectly harmonious also in deep damp sweeps of 
the large rock-garden. There are countless named forms, and lilac- 
pink tones are much in favour. But those who best love A. japonica 
prefer the dazzling innocence of the pure whites ; of these, old Honorine 
Jobert still keeps a high place, but has now been dethroned by 
Géante Blanche, the most broad-leaved, tall-stemmed, stalwart, and 
magnificent of all, with the largest and the most noble snow-white 
flowers. This does not as yet seem to establish quite so readily or 
ramp so vigorously as the rest ; but it has not long been on its trial. 
A. j. Lady Gilmour, or crispifolia, is a curious pink-flowered variety 
with leaves all curled and twisted like parsley. Of other border 
varieties no more need be mentioned, but two acknowledged species 
have recently come to hand from China, A. mupinensis and A. 
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