ANEMONE. 
cultivation, and no doubt will not come true from the seed in which 
all Pulsatillas are so profuse, and from which they yield so interesting 
a range of colour-forms. Finally, though the species be so easy and 
repaying in any sunny place and good soil—but better in rather poor 
if the habit is not to be coarsened—remember that A. Pulsatilla is 
essentially lime-craving, and that a large part of its consistent attach- 
ment to the Romans and their works is owing to cupboard-love for 
the superior quality of their mortar-rubble. 
A. quinquefolia is a smaller and frailer A. nemorosa from America. 
A. Raddeana is a very frail, fine woodland species from Japan, lying 
along the ground, and looking like a delicate small Trientalis. 
A. ranunculoeides, which like A. apennina has established itself in 
English woods, is a small Wood-anemone with fewer broader rays, of 
a shrill canary-yellow. It is a common sub-alpine species, and in the 
woods of Ferrara, under the long slope of Monte Baldo, it develops into 
a finer and fuller form than the type. 
A. reflexa, from Siberia, so curiously does indeed reflex the segments 
of its white flowers that they form globes, as it were, the wrong side 
out, 
A. kichardsonii is a synonym of A. multifida, q.v. 
A. riparia is a repetition of A. cylindrica, but not so worthless, 
having (together with thinner, greener, less downy foliage) flowers 
of better size, and of a reddish-white. 
A. rivularis may be magnified from the earlier description of A. 
elongata. ‘This is one of our most precious Anemones, showering up its 
rich loose heads of blossoms, with their blue reverse, in summer, and 
thriving heartily in any cool, moist, or boggy corner. This species, so 
perfectly trustworthy and hardy, is yet almost tropical at one end 
of its distribution through the ranges of temperate India, where it 
is found at last in the hill-woods of Ceylon. 
A. rupestris, again, is a small rock-haunting golden treasure from 
the Himalaya, close to the last. 
A. rupicola is a softly silky thing about a foot high, with two or 
three largish flowers to a scape (or more), white, and silky outside. The 
leaves are three-lobed and then gashed again. The plant has a vague 
suggestion of a fine A. narcissiflora, if the cultivated specimens are 
true, which is not by any means to be taken for granted. 
A. silvestris, from the woods of Germany and Austria, is one of 
the most valuable and lovely of all, especially for any cool moist 
corner of the rock-garden, where it may be allowed to run at its own 
wild will. For run it does, with an irrepressible zeal, if suited in its 
soil, which should be a light rich loam. Here its tufts of dark and 
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