28 FLORA DOMESTIC A. 



It seems more usual, as well as in character, for the 

 presence of the sun to unclose the lips of the Anemone, 

 which commonly close when he withdraws ; but when he 

 shines clear, 



" Then thickly strewn in woodland bowers, 

 Anemones their stars unfold." 



Sir W. Jones has translated an ode from the Turkish of 

 Mesihi, in which the author celebrates several of the more 

 sweet or splendid flowers : 



" See ! yon anemones their leaves unfold, 



With rubies flaming, and with living gold." 



" The sweetness of the bower has made the air so fragrant, that the 

 dew, before it falls, is changed into rose water." 



" The dew-drops, sweeten'd by the musky gale. 

 Are changed to essence ere they reach the dale." 



The only poetical allusion, which I have met with, to 

 the fragility of the Anemone, is in the poems of Sir W. 

 Jones : 



" Youth, like a thin anemone, displays 

 His silken leaf, and in a morn decays." 



Pulsatilla is a name common to several of the Anemones ; 

 one is specifically distinguished by that name ; it is a hand- 

 some purple flower, blowing in April, a native of most parts 

 of Europe, growing upon chalky downs. It grows wild in 

 several of our counties, but not near to the metropolis. It 

 is frequently called Pasque-flower, or Easter-flower ; by 

 some Flaw-flower, and Hill-tulip. There is a variety with 

 double, and another with white flowers. 



ANTHOLYZA. 



I&IDEJE. TRIANDfilA MONOGYNIA. 



The name of this flower is from two Greek words, signifying a 

 flower and madness. Why they are so applied I do not know, unless 

 it has been used in hydrophobia. 



THE Antholyzas being chiefly from warmer countries, 

 will not bear the open air in this :- they are usually kept 



