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and more coloured ; so that we have a double verticil. Elsewhere 

 the number of petaloid leaves becomes much larger, either on 

 account of the deduplication of the 

 interior ones, and their replacement by 

 pairs of appendages, or owing to the 

 j]fradual transformation of the outer 

 stamens into coloured blades, so that 

 the flower tends to become double.' 

 In A. nemorosa L., the Wood Anemone 

 (Fr. Si/lvie, figs. 79, 80), the normal 

 number is six sepals in two whorls, so 

 that this and all the allied species'- are 

 to the other Anemones what the Ficaria 

 are to the Rammculi, properly so called. 

 The other parts of the flower present 

 variations of only secondary importance 

 in the numerous species of this genus. 

 Thus the stamens are usuall}'" all fertile ; 

 but in Pulsatilla^ the outer stamens, 

 shorter than the rest, become quite 

 sterile, and are represented by more or 

 less glan- 

 dular sta- 

 minodes. 

 The car- 

 pels, in- 

 stead of 

 being sur- 

 mounted by 

 into a lono 



Anemone nemorosa. 

 Fig. so. 

 LouKituJinal section of flower. 



Fig. 1i 



a slightly projecting horn, may be produced above 

 bearded tail ; and many authors have used these 



1 See on the subject of Anemones with double 

 flowers the now classical work of De Caxdolle 

 {I. ciL, 388) which contains the names given by 

 florists to the different parts of the double flowers 

 of Anemones. Besides modifications in form and 

 size, all the parts of the flower may become 

 chloranthous. In the monstrous Wood Anemones 

 often cultivated in our gardens, the stamens 

 usually become sterile, still retaining, however, 

 somewhat of the normal form and tint. The 

 largest, spathulate j>etaloid blades, which are 

 found towards the centre of the flower, and arc 



the better developed as they approach it, are due 

 to the metamorphosis of the carpels. 



- Prudr., i. 20. In some years and localities 

 the Wood Anemones have always six sepals ; 

 those with eight sepals have been common this 

 year [1867 ? Tea>'s.] at Meudon. In this species, 

 as in many others, the flower droops as it fructifies. 

 Adansox calls the Wood Anemone "Oriba" 

 {Joe. ciL, 459). 



3 Anemone PuhatiUa L., Sjiec, 759. — DC, 

 Prodi:, i. n.— PuhatiUa T., Insfit., 284-, 1. 148. 

 — Spacii, Suit, a Buff., vii. 253. 



