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In the first species the peduncles are erect 

 and round, from four tn seven or eight inches 

 in height, villose, one- flowered ; lengthening 

 after the flowering is past. The involucre mul- 

 tifid, with the divisions linear and villose. It 

 sits close to the flower, but when that is fallen 

 it is found almost in the middle of the peduncle. 

 The corolla specious, and purple in colour ; the 

 petals lanceolate, and villose without ; the seeds 

 ovate, tailed, hairy, and scarcely adhering to 

 the receptacle : the leaves rough and finely 

 cut, with three or four pairs of pinnas and 

 pinnules. It grows naturally in Sweden, and 

 flowers in April. 



The varieties are: with single blue flowers, 

 with double blue flowers, with single and double 

 white flowers, with single and double red flow 

 ers, and with violet-coloured flowers. 



The second has the root perennial ; the root- 

 leaves arc ternate-digitatc ; leaflets sessile, laci- 

 niate and acuminate, the middle leaflet tripar- 

 tite, the side ones bipartite ; the scape one- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; the involucre 

 remote and villose ; the corolla white and \il- 

 lose underneath ; the stamens yellow. It is a 

 native of Siberia. 



The third species has the flower red without, 

 white within ; it blows earlier than the Pasque- 

 flower ; the leaves approach these of Meadow- 

 Hue ; the stem is half a foot high, with a very 

 tomentose, yellow, shining involucre in the mid- 

 dle, finely cut. When the flower is young, it 

 is white with a blush of purple on the outside, 

 where it is hairy : these hairs afterwards become 

 yellow. The corolla consists of six convergent 

 ovate-lanceolate petals : the stamens arc very nu- 

 merous. It grows in the woods in Sweden, 

 &c. 



In the Hcpatica kind the only species is the 

 A. Hepatica, or Hcpatica. 



In this the leaves of the year before remain, 

 which are heart-shaped, three-lobed, obtuse, and 

 smooth, beneath being veined in net-work : 

 the petiole:- are cylindric, long, and rising : the 

 bud has generally four outer scales, ovate and 

 membranaceous ; three inner ones, concealing 

 the leaves and flowers ; the peduncles three, cy- 

 lindric, hairy, and one-flowered. The flower 

 lies a year complete in all its parts within the 

 bud. The corolla has six petals in two rows of 

 three each, lanceolate, and spreading : the sta- 

 mens are about twenty-five : the seeds oblong- 

 ovate, involved in a silky substance ; but many 

 of them abortive. It is found wild in Sweden, 

 &c. It flow ers early. 



The varieties in cultivation are numerous : 

 the single and double blue, single and double red 

 or peach-coloured, single and double white, 



single and double variegated red and white, 

 single and double violet-coloured, with striped 

 leaves. 



Culture in (he Garden hinds. — All the species 

 and varieties of the garden and wood Anemones 

 are capable of being propagated by offsets from, 

 or dividing their roots. By sow ing the seed, 

 new varieties may also be obtained. 



In order to procure the offsets, and dig over 

 and prep:irc the beds, the best sorts should be 

 annually taken up immediately on their leaves 

 beginning to decav, as in the early part of June 

 for the more forward sort-!. Thev must then be 

 divided, or have the offset knobs taken off. 

 This work should always be performed in a dry 

 season, the root-bulbs, after the earth has been 

 removed, being deposited on a mat, in an airy 

 dry place, where there is not much sun, being 

 spread out in a thin manner. When they are 

 become quite dry, the remainder of the earth 

 should be rubbed off them, and they may be 

 put up in hairs or boxes, and placed in a situa- 

 tion where they cannot be injured by vermin. 

 The roots should not be too much parted where 

 they are intended to flower strongly, and each 

 part should be furnished with a good eye. 

 Where the taking up has been delayed till 

 the roots begin to make new shoot-, it will be 

 too late to remove them that season. 



In planting the roots or sets thus procured, or 

 which have been purchased from the seedsmen, 

 such situations should be chosen for blowing 

 them in as are free from much moisture, and 

 where the exposure is open to the influence of 

 the sun and air, and free from the shade of 

 trees. They will succeed and flower in tolerable 

 perfection in any soil that is sufficiently light 

 and friable in the mould; but in order to have 

 them blow in the greatest perfection, beds 

 should be prepared with earthy mixtures, made 

 by taking oft' the surface of such lands as have 

 been long in the state of sw ard, to the depth of 

 eight or ten inches, where the earth is of the 

 light sandy or hazel mould kind, throwing it up 

 for some time that it may rot and become per- 

 fectly mellow ; when rotten cow-dung, in tfee 

 proportion of one-third, should be incorporated 

 with it, by having them thrown up together into 

 a heap, and frequently turned over afterwards ; 

 the stones and clods being carefully raked out 

 and reduced ; but the earth should not be sifted, 

 as it is apt by such means to become too stiff 

 and compact. Seme advise the addition of drift 

 or sea-sand, in the quantity of about one- 

 fourth. 



With this earth beds must be formed for the 

 reception of the roots : these should be marked 

 out to the breadth of about three feet and au 



