90 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



ANEMONE. 



Pasque Flower. Musk-scented Geranium. 



Anemone pulsatilla is an old-fashioned English perennial 

 border flower/easily cultivated, and described by Gerarde, the 

 herbalist,^ in his book written two hundred and fifty years ago, 

 thus : " It hath many small leaves, finely cut or jagged, like 

 those of carrots, among which rise up naked stalkes roughf, 

 hairie, whereupon doe grow beautiful floures, bell-fashion, of a 

 bright delaied purple color ; in the bottom whereof groweth a 

 tuft of yellow thrumbs, and in the middle of the thrumbs it 

 thrusteth forth a small purple pointell. When the whole flower 

 is passed, there succeedeth an head or knob, compact of many 

 gray hairy lockes, and in the solid part of the knob lieth the 

 seed, flat and hairy, every seed having his own small haire 

 hanging at it. The root is thicke and knobby, of a finger long, 

 running right down, and therefore not unlike those of the 

 Anemone, which it doth in all its other parts very notably 

 resemble, and whereof no doubt this is a kind." 



A. nemerosa, or Wood Anemone, is one of our earliest 

 flowers in spring, appearing in April, and continuing through 

 May ; found in company with violets arid other vernal flowers, 

 in woods and pastures, and by the side of walls and fences. It 

 grows in spreading clusters, sending up its stem, bearing three 

 leaves, which is crowned with one single white flower, the 

 external part of which is of a reddish-purple. 



There is another indigenous species of the Anemone, a 

 perennial also, called the rue-leaved, or A. thcdictroides, which 

 is distinguished from the last by its number of flowers and 

 more finely-divided leaves. Flowers white, in April and May. 



These two species require some care in transplanting, as the 

 roots are delicute and straggling. It requires shade and 

 moisture. 



