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Double Blush; the White; the Lesser Blush ; 

 the Purple; the Blue; the Rose-coloured; 

 the Carnation ; the Purple Velvet ; the Purple 

 Velvet of three colours; the Double Brimstone; 

 the Green, &c. 



Jn the second sort the stems rise to the same 

 height. According to Haller, the root-leaves 

 are of two kinds ; one very deeply gashed, so 

 that they have the appearance of being five-fin- 

 gered, but are in reality three-parted, the side- 

 lobes being two-parted to the very base ; all the 

 lobes are narrow and sharp : the side ones deeply 

 bifid, the middle ones tnfid or quadrifid, the ex- 

 treme ones sharply lanceolate : the other kind 

 broad, deeply three-lobed, blunt, bluntly and 

 shortly serrate at the tip, with an awn standing 

 out. The leaf on the stem, or involucre, is 

 ternate, the leaflets ovate-lanceolate. The pe- 

 duncle is solitary and one-flowered, as in the 

 first : the petals three times three (in the natural 

 single flowers), long, elliptic, marked with lines, 

 the outer ones subhirsute on the outside, white 

 at the base with green lines. The roots in this 

 as well as the first consist of small tubers. 



There are several varieties of this both with 

 single and double flowers : the single and double 

 Yellow : the Purple Starre Anemone, darker and 

 paler; Violet Purple; Purple striped; Carna- 

 tion; Gredeline, between a peach-colour and a 

 violet; Cochenille, of a fine reddish violet or 

 purple ; Cardinal, of a rich crimson red ; 

 Bloud-red, of a deeper, but not so lively a 

 red; Crimson; Stamell, near unto a scarlet; 

 Incarnadine, of a fine delayed red or flesh-co- 

 lour; Spanish Incarnate, of a lively flesh-co- 

 lour, shadowed with yellow; Blush, of a fair 

 whitish red; Nutmegge, of a dark whitish co- 

 lour, striped with veins of a blush-colour ; 

 Monk's-gray, pale whitish tending to a grav ; 

 Great Orenge Tawnie ; Lesser Orenge Tawnie : 

 in the double, the great double Anemone of 

 Constantinople, or Spanish Marigold ; great 

 double Orenge Tawnie ; double Anemone of Cy- 

 prus ; double Persian Anemone ; the common 

 great double Variable Anemone; common double 

 and variegated Scarlet ; Red and Purple ; varie- 

 gated 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 pe- 

 tioled ; the petiole is flat and broad, particularly 

 at the base ; each part, or leaf (for some con- 

 sider it as three leaves) is trifid ; each leaflet 

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being gash-serrate, and hairy underneath, espe- 

 cially on the nerves. The peduncle is from an 

 inch to two inches in length, is only a conti- 

 nuation of the stem, and springs from the 

 centre of the leaf. The flower consists of six 

 or seven oblong-ovate petals, sometimes ending 

 bluntly, sometimes emarginate, and the Editor 

 of Miller's Dictionary has observed them not 

 unfrequently 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 

 reddish 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, 

 ternate, and leaflets usually three-parted ; the 

 segments variously 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 commonly slightly 

 hairy ; the flowers are upright, of a pak biue 

 colour, and sweet smell ; the petals oblong, 

 from twelve to fifteen, and disposed in three 

 rows. It flowers in April. 



The varieties are : with single blue flowers, 

 with double blue flowers, with single violet-co- 

 loured flowers, with double violet-coloured 

 flowers. 



The fifth differs from the above in having a 

 yellow corolla, two petal? alternately outer, and 

 two inner, and one having one side within and 

 the other side without the next petal ; whereas 

 that has three outer and three inner petals : it 

 differs also in the peduncles being accompanied 

 with two leaflets, the latter of which is fur- 

 nished with three at the base. It flowers a little 

 earlier than the other. It has sometimes two 

 flowers on a stem, though often but one, the 

 peduncles villose and short, so that the flower 

 scarcely rises above the leaves : the petals are 

 five, and roundish ; the stamens about fifty. It 

 grows wild in Sweden, Sec. 



In the Pulsatilla, or Pasque-flower sort, the 

 species are : \. A. Pulsatilla, Pasque-flower ; 

 2. A. patens, Woolly-leaved Pulsatilla, or Ane- 

 mone ; 3. A. vernalis, Early Spring Pulsatilla,, 

 or Anemone. 



