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In the first species the peduncles are er^fct 

 and round, from tour to seven or eislil inches 

 in hciffht, villose, one-fiowered ; iengtheninir 

 after the flowering is past. The involucre nu\l- 

 tifid, with the aivisinns linear and villose. It 

 sits close to the flower, but w hen that is fallen 

 it is found almost in the middle of the peduncle. 

 The corolla specious, and purple m colour ; the 

 petals lanceolate, and villose without ; the seeds 

 ovate, tailed, hairy, and scarcely adhering to 

 the receptacle : tiie leaves rough and finely 

 cut, with three or four pairs of pinnas and 

 pinnules. It grows naturally in Sweden, and 

 flowers in April. 



The varieties are : with single blue flowers, 

 with double blue flowers, with single and double 

 white flowers, with single and double red flow 

 ers, and with violet-coloured flowers. 



The second has the root perennial ; the root- 

 leaves are ternate-digitate ; leaflets sessile, laci- 

 niate and acuminate, the middle leaflet tripar- 

 tite, the side ones bipartite ; the scape one- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; the involucre 

 remote and villose ; the corolla white and vil- 

 lose imdcrneath ; the stamens yellow. It is a 

 native of Siberia. 



The third species has the flower retl without, 

 white within ; it blows earlier than the Pasque- 

 flower ; the leaves approach those of Mcadow- 

 Kue : the stem is half a foot hioh, with a very 

 tomentose, yellow, shining involucre in the mid- 

 dle, finely cut. When the flower is young, it 

 is white with a blush of purple on the outside, 

 where it is hairy : these hairs afterwards become 

 yellow. The corolla consists of six convenient 

 ovate-lanceolate petals : the stamens are very im- 

 nierous. It grows in the woods in Sweden, 

 &c. 



In the Hepatica kind the only species is the 

 j}. Hepatica, or Hepatica. 



In this the leaves of the year before remain, 

 whirh are heart-shaped, three-lobed, obtuse, and 

 smooth, beneath being veined in net-work : 

 the petioles are cylindric, long, and rising : the 

 bud has generally four outer scales, ovate and 

 membranaceous ; three inner ones, concealing 

 the leaves and flowers ; the peduncles three, cy- 

 lindric, hairy, and one-flowered. The flower 

 lies a year complete in all its parts within the 

 bud. The corolla has six petals in two rows of 

 three each, lanceolate, and spreading : the sta- 

 mens are about twenty- five : the seeds oblong- 

 ovate, involved in a silky substance ; but many 

 of them abortive. It is found wild in Sweden, 

 &.C. It flow ers early. 



The varieties in cultivation are numerous : 

 the single and double blue, single ?.nd double red 

 or peach-coloured, single and double white. 



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single and double variegated red and white, 

 single and double violet-coljured, with striped 

 leaves. 



C?ill7irc in the Garden kinds. — All the species 

 and varieties of the garden and w-ood Anemones 

 arc capable of being propagated by offsets from, 

 or dividing their roots. By sowing the seed, 

 new varieties may also be obtained. 



In order to procure the offsets, and disr over 

 and prepire the beds, the best sorts should be 

 annually taken up immediately on their leaves 

 beginning to decay, as in the early part of June 

 for the more forward sorts. They nmst then be 

 divided, or have the offset knobs taken ofi^. 

 This work should always be performed in a dry 

 season, the root-bulbs, after the earth has been 

 removed, being deposited on a mat, in an airy 

 dry place, where there is not much sun, being 

 spread out in a thin manner. When they are 

 beeonic quite drv, the remainder of the earth 

 should be rubbed off' them, and they may be 

 put up in baus or boxes, and placed in a situa- 

 tion where they cannot be injured by vermin. 

 The roots should not be too much parted where 

 they are intended to flower strongh', and each 

 part should be furnished with a good eye. 

 Where the taking up has been delayed till 

 the roots begin to make new shoots, it will be 

 too late to remove them that season. 



In planting the roots or sets thus procured, or 

 which have been purchased from the seedsmen, 

 such situations should be chosen for blowing 

 them in as are free from much moisture, and 

 where the exposure is open to the influence of 

 the sun and air, and free from the shade of 

 trees. They w ill succeed and hower in tolerable 

 perfection in any soil that is sufficiently light 

 and friable in the mould; but in order to have 

 them blow in the greatest perfection, beds 

 should l,e piepared wi'h earthy mixtures, made 

 by taking oft the sm-face of such lands as have 

 been long in the state of sward, to tlie depth of 

 eight or ten inches, w here the earth is of the 

 light sandy or hazel mould kind, throw ing it up 

 for some time that it may rot and become per- 

 fectly mellow ; when rotten cow-dung, in tke 

 proportion of one-third, should be incorporated 

 with it, by having them thrown up together into 

 a heap, and frequently turned over afterwards ; 

 the stones and clods beins carefully raked out 

 and reduced ; but the earth should not be sifted, 

 as it is apt by such means to become too stiff" 

 and compact. Some advise the addition of drift 

 or sea-sand, in tlie quantity of about one- 

 fourth. 



With this earth beds must be formed for the 

 reception of the roots : these should be marked 

 out to the breadth of about three feet and an 



