ANEMONE. 
a choice place, has its value for effect. It ramifies vehemently 
through any light soil, and sends up, on long upstanding stems, soft 
hairy foliage rather like that of Ranunculus bulbosus, but larger, 
softer, duller, greener, and much taller, on stems of 4 or 5 inches. Up 
among these and well above the leaves, to a foot cr more, spring the 
dainty and divergently-branching stems, each of which sends up, on 
a graceful foot-stalk, one creamy-white star, which, though not re- 
markably large for the plant, yet gives a pleasant result of charm and 
gladness, glorifying early summer and lingering on. There is no 
question about propagating A. pennsylvanica, but rather of keeping 
it in check, if happy. Yet, if it does not fancy its soil, it will not 
grow, and proves as capricious as its more showy betters. 
A. polyanthes. See under A. narcissiflora. 
A. pratensis, another very wide-spread and very. variable Field- 
anemone of the Pulsatilla group. The leaves are here pretty much as 
in A. Pulsatilla, not lobed, but gashed to the middle, and then cut and 
slit again and again. The flowers never really open properly; they 
are always long and narrow and cylindric and hanging, of a dull purple, 
with their sepals hardly any longer than the yellow anthers and the 
carpels inside, by which the bloom accordingly looks rather uncom- 
fortably cramped and crowded. It is a thing of no special beauty, 
but of enormous distribution, occupying practically the whole of 
Europe and nearer Asia, whereas A. patens belongs chiefly to mid- 
Germany (ranging into Russia as far as the Lena), and A. montana 
is confined wholly to ranges much further South. There is a variety 
of A. pratensis, A. p. montana, on Monte Baldo; but A. pratensis itself 
has often interbred and been entangled in the more Southerly parts 
of its distribution with the true species A. montana where they 
both occur. The mountains of Auvergne produce a form with blooms 
so dark as to be almost chocolate black. 
A. Pulsatilla is, in need and habit, the type of these Field-anemones, 
which all are found at low elevations in hard dry soil on hot and 
grassy hills. A. Pulsatilla is by far the best known of its European 
cousins, and by far the most beautiful, with the exception of A. 
Halleri. Its range does not run so far North as that of Pratensis, but 
in Europe itself is almost equally wide (in the Alps of Central Europe 
it comes no further South than Hal in the Tyrol, but descends far down 
into Italy, upon Rome itself) ; the Romans probably brought it into 
England in their train, and it produces a beautiful green dye, which 
has earned the plant its English name of Pasque-flower, because it 
was used for staining the Easter eggs. And now on Roman works, 
such as the Devil’s Dyke near Newmarket, its lovely great violet 
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