

PLATE IV. 



1. ANEMONE HORTENSIS, 



STAR ANEMONE. 



THIS genus comprehends several plants of the tuberous-rooted 

 flowery ornamental kind; being perennial in their roots, but annual 

 in their stems and flowers. 



It belongs to the class and order Potyandria Polygynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Multisiliqua. 



The characters are: that it has no calyx; that the corolla has 

 petals in two or three rows, three in a row, somewhat oblong : the 

 stamina have numerous filaments, capillary, half the length of the 

 corolla: the anthers twin and erect: the pistillum has numerous 

 germs in a head, the styles acuminate, and the stigmas obtuse: no 

 pericarpium : the receptacle globular or oblong, hollowed, and dot- 

 ted: the seeds very many, acuminate, retaining the style. 



The species are very numerous; but those that most deserve the 

 cultivator's attention in the Anemone kind are: 1. A. coronaria, Nar- 

 row-leaved Garden Anemone; 2. A.hortensis, Broad-leaved Garden 

 Anemone; 3. A. nemorosa, Wood Anemone; 4. A.apennina, Moun- 

 tain-blue Wood Anemone; 5. A. ranunculoides, Yellow-wood Ane- 

 mone. 



In the first species the flower-stems rise between the leaves im- 

 mediately from the roots, two, three, or more from the same root, to 

 the height of eight, ten, or twelve inches, having a leafy appendage 

 <jr invohierum a little above the middle. The radical leaves are 

 deeply divided into numerous segments, which are subdivided by 

 threes into many narrow divisions. At the top each stem is adorned 

 with a flower, which in the double sorts is large and very ornamental. 



