1887-88.] Fruits of the Genus Anemone. 177 



round or lentiform; style short, or of the same length as the 

 achene; pericarp densely clothed with soft long hair, longest 

 at the base of the achene. This kind of hair is especially 

 adapted for transporting the fruit to a considerable distance 

 by means of the wind. 



9. Barneoudia, * Gay, Hist. Chil. Bot„ i. p. 29, Tab. i., 1845. 

 Achene bean-shaped, style of nearly equal length; the 



parenchyma of the achene has net-like incrassation. Achene 

 covered with erect hair of the same length as itself, but 

 longer than the hair of the style. Means of dissemination, 

 the hair. 



10. ExinvolvA^ratK, nov. sect. 



Anemone integrifolia, Spreng., occupies a separate place, 

 owing to the entire absence of the involucre. The writer 

 regrets not having been able to see a ripe fruit, but concludes 

 it must be hairy, judging from the style, when in the state 

 of fructification. 



The fruit of the genus Anemone originates in the style, 

 which contains in the ovary only one involucral ovulum. 

 The warts, which are to be found in the ovary above this 

 ovulum, and which Baillon t regards as abortive ovula and 

 characteristic of this genus, have no diagnostic value, because 

 they are only to be found in some species, and are of doubt- 

 ful nature. 



The ovulum of the genus Adonis, having two involucres, \ 

 cannot be classed with the genvis Anemone. 



* Barneoudia chiUnsis, Gay ; B. major, Pli. ; B. Domeyhoana, Leib. 

 t Histoire des Plantes, Renonculacees, p. 44. 

 + Adonis cestivalis, h- 



