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ON SEEDLINGS 



Cotyledons foliaceous, glabrous, petiolate ; petiole semiterete, 

 channelled above, dilated and connate at the base, bright reddish 

 purple, 12 mm. long ; lamina oval, obtuse, 

 mucronate, obscurely trinerved, 1 cm. long, 

 6 mm. broad. 



Stem herbaceous. 



Leaves radical (ultimately cauline), simple, 

 alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, hairy all over ; 

 petioles semiterete, channelled above, dilated 

 towards the base. 



No. 1. Eeniform, deeply tripartite, five- 

 nerved; middle segment cuneate, three- to five- 

 toothed above ; teeth triangular, mucronate, 

 frequently aristate ; lateral segments bifid and 

 toothed above ; teeth similar to those of the 

 middle segment. 



Anemone fulgens, Gay. 



Primary root slender, flexuous, brown, 

 densely covered with root-hairs. 



Hypocotyl subterranean, shortly fusiform, 

 deep brown and covered with longitudinal corky 

 ridges, 3-5 mm. long, fleshy or tuberous. 



Cotyledons roundly ovate, oblique, varying 

 greatly in shape and size, smaller, but other- 

 wise very similar to those of A. rivularis. 



Stem subsequently forming an underground 

 fleshy rhizome, and not developed in the seedling. 

 Leaves simple, radical, alternate, exstipu- 

 late, petiolate, with the petiole sheathing at 

 the base, ultimately much divided. 



Nos. 1-2. Leaf small, reniform, three- to five-nerved, with three 

 to five cuspidate teeth ; finely ciliate. 



Anemone Coronaria, L. 1 



Hypocotyl suppressed or very short and subterranean. 



Cotyledons with petioles connate for two-thirds of their length, 

 and appearing to spring from one side ; free part of petioles terete, 

 channelled on the upper side ; limb oval or oblong, emarginate, 

 glabrous, 5 mm. long, 3'5 mm. broad. 



Stem a subterranean fleshy rhizome, perennial. 



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FIG. 123. Anemone 

 rivularis. Nat. size. 



Irmisch, Bot. Zeit. 1856, taf. i. 



