ANEMONE. 
hupehensis, which to a more moderate estimate seem more like mere 
local developments of A. japonica; they both have rosy-mauve 
flowers, and have no outstanding value in the garden, but still less 
in the rock-garden, except for the interest of their provenance and 
relationship. But a genuine species in close kinship to A. japonica is 
beautiful A. vitifolia from the temperate regions of the Himalaya. This 
is, to all intents and purposes of the garden, a gracious and non-spread- 
ing A. japonica with handsome flowers of pure white. It blooms 
extremely late, and has been suspected of tenderness; which seems, 
however, a false alarm, as it lived here quite happily for several years 
in a corner not particularly sheltered. (See Appendix.) 
A. lithophila is a species close to A. parviflora, with stout little stems 
from 4 to 6 inches high, and charming stars of whity-blue standing 
erect from a fat stock. (Damp North-American rocks.) 
A. Lyallit is so far a mere blind name, the seed-boxes in which its 
labels stand being blank, and no authority discoverable. 
A. magellanica of catalogues is a valueless thing : it looks so North- 
American in ugliness that one can hardly trust its name. 
A. mandschuriensis. See A. sinensis. 
A. mexicana, a most beautiful novelty, not unlike a much mag- 
nified upright Nemorosa, of some 8 inches in habit, with wide hairy 
stems, a creeping and increasing rhizome, and lovely pink flowers 
held up to catch such light as filters through the alpine coppice on 
the Mexican mountains. It will enjoy damp boggy places in limy 
woodland, but should have a sheltered place and winter-care until we 
learn its degree of hardiness. 
A. montana belongs to the Pulsatilla group in which there is so 
much puzzlement (to say nothing of variations and interbreedings 
that justly bewilder even the trained botanist). It should, however, 
be easily known ; its leaves are fine and ferny, but not so much so as 
in Pulsatilla, and they are not grey, but dark green ; the flower-stalk is 
taller, and the flowers are deep purply black or reddish purple, ob- 
viously nodding, especially when clouds are about. They are usually 
tucked far into their leaf-frill, and narrowly bell-shaped, until at last 
they open out into a star. Finally, it is a species confined to the 
South, on sunny grassy hills at low elevations, as, for instance, above 
Bozen, reaching its limit no further away than at Brixen, and nowhere 
northward of that point to be seen. 
A. multifida is the correct name of the worthless weed so often 
offered under the names of A. globosa and A. Hudsoniana. It produces 
a number of tall erect foot-stalks, each carrying a single dingy little 
bloom of dull greenish red. 
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