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15. Anemone Silvestris; Large White-flowered Wood Ane- 

 mone. Peduncle naked ; seeds rounded, shaggy, awnless ; 

 flower naked ; seeds tailless. The flower is large, and white, 

 with but little beauty ; yet there is in the flowers, especially 

 before they expand, a simple elegance, resembling the Snow- 

 drow, which forms a pleasing contrast to the more showy 

 ones of the garden. They appear in May, and produce seeds 

 in June, standing on the tops of the flower-stalks, which 

 sometimes grow two together, but generally single. It is a 

 native of many parts of Germany, and has been seen in Swe- 

 den, Alsace, and Siberia. 



16. Anemone Fragifera. Peduncle naked ; seeds roundish, 

 woolly, awnless, tailless. Flowers naked, without smell, pale 

 purple, solitary, deciduous, hirsute. Native of Corinthia. 



17. Anemone Virginiana ; Virginian Anemone. Peduncles 

 alternate, very long ; fruit cylindric ; seeds shaggy, awnless, 

 tailless ; flowers naked, and green like the calix, appearing 

 in May and June. Native of N. America. 



18. Anemone Decapetala ; Ten-petalled Anemone. Stem 

 one-flowered ; flower ten-petalled ; leaves ternate, lobate, 

 radical. Flower naked, small, and white ; seed tailless. 

 It is found in Brazil. 



19. Anemone Pennsylvanica ; Pennsylvanian Anemone. 

 Stem dichotomous ; leaves sessile, stem-clasping, the lowest 

 ternate, trifid, gashed. Flower naked ; seed tailless. Native 

 of Canada and Pennsylvania. 



20. Anemone Dichotoma. Stem dichotomous, a foot high ; 

 leaves sessile, all opposite, stem-clasping, trifid, gashed. 

 Flower naked ; seed tailless ; root creeping far and wide ; co- 

 rollas purplish underneath. Native of Canada and Siberia. 



21. Anemone Trifolia, Leaves ternate, ovate, entire, ser- 

 rate; stem one flowered. Flower naked ; seed tailless; co- 

 rolla six-petalled, and white. It flowers at the end of April. 

 Grows in the woods of France, Carniola, and Siberia. 



22. Anemone Quinquefolia. Leaves quinate, oval, ser- 

 rate ; stem one-flowered ; flower naked ; seed tailless. 

 Native of Virginia and Canada. 



23. Anemone Nemorosa; Wood Anemone. Seeds acute, 

 tailless ; leaflets gashed ; stem one-flowered ; flower naked. 

 Root perennial, creeping ; height of the plant five to ten inches ; 

 the usual colour of the flower white. It grows in woods 

 among bushes, in hedges, sometimes in pastures, of most parts 

 of Europe. It almost covers the ground with its flowers in 

 some of the woods of England during March, April, and May. 

 Jn fine clear weather the blossoms are expanded, and become 

 so erect as to face the sun ; but in wet weather, and in the even- 

 ing, they are closed and bang down. As the paper in which 

 dried specimens of this plant had been preserved was stained 

 brown, it might probably be useful as a dye. It is acrid, and 

 slightly poisonous. Linneus informs us, that cattle brought 

 frem open to woody pastures, and eating of this plant, have 

 afterwards had the bloody flux, and voided bloody urine. 

 When the flowers become double, the Wood Anemone is cul- 

 tivated by the gardeners ; and, were the same pains taken 

 with it as with the foreign Anemones, it would in all proba- 

 bility be much improved in the eye of the florist. This plant 

 is also called the Wind Flower. The juice snuffed up the nose, 

 or the root held in the mouth, excites a discharge of cold 

 watery humours from the head and parts adjacent. The 

 leaves bruised, and applied to ulcers and running sores, 

 cleanse, and dispose them to heal. Some authors recommend 

 it in suppressions of the menses; but it is too acrid in its nature 

 for internal use, and might prove fatal in unskilful hands. 

 The roots may be taken up when the leaves decay, and trans- 

 planted into wildernesses, where they will greatly increase if 

 not disturbed ; and in the spring, before the leafing of the 

 trees, the ground will be covered with their flowers. 



24. Anemone Apennina ; Mountain Wood Anemone, 

 Seeds acute, tailless ; leaflets gashed ; petals lanceolate, 

 numerous, from 12 to 15, disposed in three rows : flowers 

 naked, upright, of a pale blue colour, and sweet smell. This 

 flowers at the same time as the Wood Anemone (No. 23.) i\m! 

 makes a fine variety when intermixed with it. Double flowers 

 of both sorts have been obtained from seeds. Native of the 

 Appennines, near Rome ; and of Wimbledon, near Harrow 

 on the Hill, in a wood by Luton Hoe, Bedfordshire, and near 

 Berkhamstead. in Hertfordshire. It may be propagated by 

 offsets from the root, and will flourish in almost any situa- 

 tion, but loves a light loamy soil. 



25. Anemone Ranunculoides ; Yellow Wood Anemone. 

 Seeds acute, tailless ; leaflets gashed : petals roundish ; stem 

 mostly one-flowered ; flower naked. This has a yellow 

 corolla; and grows wild in nlmost all parts of the European 

 continent. In Great Britain it has been found near King's 

 Langley in Herts, and near Wrotham in Kent. 



26. Anemone Narcisslflora ; Narcissus-flowered Anemone. 

 Flowers umbelled; seeds oval, depressed, naked, tailless. 

 Flowers white within, reddish without, forming a salver- 

 shaped corolla. It grows wild on the mountains of Austria, 

 Switzerland, and Siberia. 



27. Anemone Fasciculata. Flowers umbelled, collected, 

 naked ; leaves multifid ; seeds tailless. Found in the moun- 

 tains near the Baikal lake ; first observed in the Levant. 



28. Anemone Thalictroides ; Meadow Rue-leaved Ane- 

 mone. Flowers umbelled, naked ; stem-leaves simple, ver- 

 ticillate ; radical leaves biternate ; seeds tailless. The 

 corolla is white ; and it is a wild native of Virginia and 

 Canada. 



Anethum; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : umbel universal and par- 

 tial manifold ; involucre neither universal nor partial ; pe- 

 rianth proper obsolete. Corolla: universal uniform ; flos- 

 cules all fertile, proper; petals five, involute, entire, very 

 short. Stamina: filamenta capillary ; antherae roundish. 

 Pistil: germen inferior; styles approximating, obsolete; stig- 

 mas obtuse. Pericarp : none ; fruit subovate, compressed, 

 striated, bipartite. Seeds: two, subovate, margined, con- 

 vex, and striated on one side, flat on the other. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Fruit : subovate, compressed, striated. Pe- 

 tals : involuted, entire. The species are, 



1. Anethum Graveolens ; Common Dill. Fruit com- 

 pressed. Dill differs from Fennel, which it otherwise greatly 

 resembles, in having an annual root, and a smaller and lower 

 stem ; the umbel of flowers yellow, but smaller than those of 

 Fennel. It has a peculiarly strong and aromatic smell. The 

 cruised herb is anodyne and resolvent; and the seeds being 

 aromatic, and containing an ethereal oil, are used in flatu- 

 :encies, for which purpose they rub the bellies of children 

 with the oil prepared by infusion ; the essential oil is also 

 jood for the colic. The seeds given in doses of a drachm, 

 disperse wind in the stomach, help digestion, and cure the 

 colic : they likewise operate by urine, and are said to be 

 an infallible cure for the chincough, but probably with- 

 out foundation. Culpeper says, that the seeds being roasted 

 or fried, and used in oils or plaisters, dissolve imposthumes 

 and dry up all moist ulcers. The decoction, whether of 

 herb or seed, which must be first bruised, he also pre- 

 scribes as a " gallant expeller of wind, and provoker f 

 he terms." A distilled water, drawn off to the quantity of 

 a gallon from a pound of seeds, was ordered in the London 

 Pharmacopojia ; and occasionally made the basis of carmina- 

 tive draughts and juleps, having a more agreeable flavour 

 than the seeds themselves. Together with this water arises a 

 considerable quantity of essential oil, which is given from one 



