ANEMONE. 
into South Europe, and may here and there be found in dry hot places 
in the Department of Var, forming wide low mats and patches of short- 
stemmed leafage, dark and glossy and round in outline, with three to 
five blunt lobes, from which, on bare stems of some 6 inches (and often 
more in cultivation), are carried the big flowers of glittering golden 
yellow, exactly like those of a Celandine glorified out of knowledge. 
Contrary to expectation, A. palmata is perfectly hardy in England, 
and though in nature a drought-loving species, it even makes happy 
shining masses in weeping Westmorland. It is a plant, accordingly, 
of conspicuous value for the garden, where room can be allowed for it 
to spread, in some sunny bank of deep rich soil, assisted with a little 
sandy peat, and perfectly drained. But indeed, even in Lancashire, 
one sees it growing freely as a border-plant on warm exposures. There 
is also a good variety alba, with white flowers ; but the essential glory 
of A. palmata is, after all, its glowing glittering gold, so rare a beauty 
in this race. 
A. parviflora, whose synonym is A. borealis, turns out a most 
charming little thing, from damp limestone rocks in Labrador and 
Alaska and Siberia. It suggests the habit and snowy loveliness of 
Ranunculus alpester, from four inches to a foot high, the leaves being 
divided into three wedge-shaped leaflets with scalloped lobes. The 
white blossoms stand lonely on the stems, and are more or less tinged 
with blue toward their base. 
A. patens, a Field-anemone allied to Pulsatilla, from mid-Germany 
and Russia. The leaves unfold after the bloom, and are cut into three 
lobes, these three lobes being again cut into two or three jags, and each 
foliole or leaflet having more or less of a minute foot-stalk. These leaves 
are often longer than the stem, and their general outline is roundish ; 
on the upper surface they are comparatively smooth and green, but 
woolly underneath. The flower-frill is much less gashed than in 
Pulsatilla, pratensis, and montana. The purple goblet (widely variable, 
from violet to yellow and white) is carried rather erect, and the three 
outer segments of it are silky, with a little silky imperial at their tip ; 
the whole tuft is quite dwarf at flowering-time. Open soil in sun. 
(A. Nuttaliana from America is a form of this.) 
A. pavonina. See under A. fulgens. 
A. pavoniana must be most carefully distinguished from the last. 
This is a Spanish species, with the habit of A. baldensis, with three- 
lobed leaves again gashed and cut; and stems of 6 or 10 inches, 
carrying one, two, or three white flowers. The root is cylindric. 
A. pennsylvanica, sometimes offered under the synonym of A. 
dichotoma or A. canadensis, though not by any means admissible to 
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