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.Anemone; the common great double Variable Anemone; common 

 double and variegated Scarlet; Red and Purple; variegated of these 

 colours. 



The best Star-Anemones are said to come from Brittany, where 

 they raise yearly many fine sorts. 



In the third species the root is perennial and creeping. The 

 height of the whole plant from five to ten inches: the stem single, 

 round, and pubescent; bearing one leaf, and one flower. The leaf 

 is doubly ternate; each part being petioled; the petiole is flat and 

 broad, particularly at the base; each part, or leaf (for some consider 

 it as three leaves) is trifid; each leaflet being gash-serrate, and hairy 

 underneath, especially on the nerves. The peduncle is from an inch 

 *o two inches in length, is only a continuation of the stem, and springs 

 from the centre of the leaf. The flower consists of six or seven ob- 

 long-ovate petals, sometimes ending bluntly, sometimes emarginate, 

 and the Editor of Miller's Dictionary has observed them not unfre- 

 quently even gashed or lacerate. The usual colour is white, but 

 they are often tinged with purple on the outside, particularly the 

 three outer ones; and sometimes they are entirely purple on both 

 sides. The joint of the stem, and the backs of the leaves are also apt 

 to be tinged with red. 



The varieties are: with single flowers, with double white flowers, 

 with single purple flowers, with double purple flowers, and with red- 

 dish purple flowers. / 



In the fourth species the root is perennial and tuberous; the stem 

 round, purplish, and about a span high: the root-leaves on long 

 petioles, lernate, and leaflets usually three-parted; the segments va- 

 riously cut and divided, somewhat pointed, hairy on both sides; one 

 three-parted leaf, or three leaves together on the stem, like the others, 

 but on short, sheathing petioles. From the centre of these arises the 

 peduncle, about a hand high, round and purplish, except near the 

 flower, where it is green. The stem, leaves, and peduncle, are com- 

 monly slightly hairy: the flowers are upright, of a pale blue colour, 

 and sweet smell; the petals oblong, from twelve to fifteen, and dis- 

 posed in three rows. It flowers in April. 



