ANEMONE. 



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The Inflorescence is solitary. The one large flower 

 is near of kin to the foregoing. It is apetalous. Its 4 7 

 sepals are oval in out- 

 line, white and more or 

 less tinged with pur- 

 ple. The stamens and 

 pistils will also be iden- 

 tified and defined by 

 the student. Why are 

 they indefinite? Which 

 hypogynous ? 



The Fruit. Is it 

 compound, or simple ? 

 Of what kind? How 

 many seeds in each 

 little fruit or carpel? 



The Name. Ane- 

 mone,* the generic ti- 

 tle, comes from the Gr. 

 animos, wind. It was 

 adopted by Linnaeus 

 from the idea then 

 prevalent that its flow- 

 ers open only when the 

 wind is blowing. The 

 specific name of the 

 Rue Anemone is A. thalictroldes, so called for its resem- 

 blance to Thalictrum, the Meadow Eue.f Of the W^ood 



FIG. XII. Anemdne nemordsa : 1, a head 

 of ripe carpels ; 2, a single carpel achenium. 



* So accented according to the Latin prosody; but as an English word it is 

 Anemone. 



t This plant has long hung trembling between the two genera Anemone and Tha- 

 lictrum. Its involucre and flowers are those of Anemone ; its leaflets and achenia like 

 those of Thalictrum. Linnaeus named it as above. Michau? called it Thalictram 

 ^nempnoides. 



