l)e entire as well, to 5 cm. long, and ironi O.fi to 1 cm. broad. The lobes of the invo- 

 liicral leaves may also be simple, fiom linear to lanceolate, with the margin sligthly 

 crenate. The basal leaves are long-peliolcd: the petioles to 20 cm. long. The lamina is 

 3-parted. and each of the side lobes deeply 2-cleft, of which the outer division is always 

 somewhat smaller than the inner one. When superficially viewed, the leaf may thus 

 appear lo be 5-parted. The lobes of the leaf may again be more or less distinctly lobed, 

 or deeply crenate, the middle lobe generally 3-or 5-lobed. 



Here and there, over smaller stretches of about 1 m.-, 1 have observed this species 

 occui-ring with a deviating appearance, which may properly have to be regarded as abnor- 

 mal individuals. Within such a small area all the specimens generally have the sepals 

 reduced, only about 1 cm. long, herbaceously green, frequently with a reddish tar- 

 nish. The stamens and achenes in these individuals frequently seemed to be more or 

 less reduced in growth too. The stems are also considerably shorter, generally from 10 to 

 15 cm. long. This abnormal form has been described by M.xrtjanow as 1'. iniidiflurii. 

 Similar abnormities, probably caused by attacks of micro-organisms, not unfrequently 

 occm- in Anemone nemorusa and other species belonging to this genus. 



Distribution: Middle and southern Europe, Caucasia, south-western Asia, Siberia 

 from the Ural to Kamtchatka and the Amoor Province, Mongolia, the Thian-Shan. 



Anemone dichotoma L. Amoen. Acad. I (1749) p. 155; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 365: 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 26: Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 42, no. 24; Regel, 

 PI. Radd. (1861) p. 17; K|ii,i.i. <[>.i. A.tt. I (19U1) p. 13. Anemone pensilvanica Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. 1. p. 17. 



Only one specimen belonging to this species occurs in my collection, taken in a 

 swampy thicket, near Ku^habar. Nearly past flowering about the middle of July. 



Distribution: Throughout Siberia, from the Ural to the Amoor Province, northwards 

 lo 61" north latitude, Manchooria, northern Corea. 



Anemone narcissiflora T.. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 763; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 366: 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 27; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 18; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) 

 p. 43, no. 25; Regel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 17: K].hi.i. <I).i. A-rx. I (1901) p. 13. 



This species is rather varying in Asia. The specimens gathered, have stems gene- 

 rally from 22 to 25 cm. high, furrowed, and like the leaves and the petioles, rather dense- 

 ly villous. The flowers are but I'arely solitary, generally 4 in an umbel. The pedicels are 

 comparatively long, to 5 cm. long, accordingly from 4 to 5 times the length of the sepals, 

 being 1 to 1.5 cm. long {y monanlha DC. Prodrom. I, p. 22; ^ in Ledeb Fl. Ross. 1. c; 

 Regel, 1. c). The achenes are glabrous, of a faint, shining black. This species has been 

 collected by me in the Altaian, about the limit of tree vegetation, at altitudes of about 

 1800 m. above sea-level, in grass-grown places, in flower and partly past flowering at 

 the end of July. 



Distribution: Southern and middle Europe. Caucasia, Turkestan, tlie Himalayas, 



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