The Ajie7nofie. 5 



Our other indigenous species are A. Caroliniana zx\d parviflora, Southern 

 and Western species with white flowers ; A. midtifida (figured Torn New 

 York, 2), cylindrica, Virginiana {figured Hook. Bot. Am. 4), and Pennsyl- 

 vanica (Hook. Bot. Am. 3, and Gray Gen. 4), all summer bloomers, of taller 

 growth, with white flowers. 



Of these, A. Pennsylvanica is the most showy, and is a beautiful garden 

 plant, succeeding in any good garden-soil, and always giving a profusion of 

 bloom. Closely allied to, and, in fact, only a sub-genus of, anemone, is the 

 hepatica, commonly called " Liver-leaf" or " Squirrel-cups," a flower which 

 challenges the Epigsea as the earliest blossom of the spring. This in the 

 single wild state is very showy, and well worthy cultivation ; and in the double 

 varieties is one of the most showy of our spring flowers. Although the 

 double blue and red varieties have long been in our garden, it is only within 

 a few weeks that the fact of a double hepatica having been found wild has 

 been brought to our knowledge. These plants need no care except to be 

 planted in a good garden-soil, and to be let alone. They are impatient of 

 removal ; but, if allowed to form large clumps, will in early spring be a 

 dazzling mass of color. The varieties are red in many shades, and blue : 

 a double white was a few years since in cultivation in England, but is sup- 

 posed now to be lost. H. angidosa^ a species from Hungaiy, with large 

 single bright-blue starry flowers and elegant foliage, has bloomed with us 

 .the two last years, and proves perfectly hardy, and is a great acquisition. 

 It is well figured in " The Floral Magazine," plate 247. Of our native 

 species, Hepatxa triloba is the same as the European : H. acutiloba has 

 pointed lobes and more sepals, but is only desirable for variety or of special 

 interest botanically. The sub-genus Fidsafilla is only represented in this 

 country by the species /rt:/.'«;, to which we have already referred, and which 

 is also a native of Siberia. Europe furnishes us many very fine species, all 

 of which are well worthy of cultivation, but which are seldom seen in our 

 gardens. P. vernalis (Sweet, Fl. Garden, 205), a native of Switzerland, 

 has very large white flowers, which spring from a close tuft of leaves, and 

 are very showy in early spring. Its hardiness with us is somewhat ques- 

 tionable. P. vulgaris is perfectly hardy, and is not uncommon in gardens. 

 The flowers are dark dingy-purple, covered with long silky hairs, but are 

 not very showy. P. alpina is a very variable species, producing showy 



