50 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Alpine pastures and steep, partially wooded banks and hillsides ; 

 but nearly always on calcareous soil, from 3000 to 6800 feet, and 

 often covering large tracts. End of May to August, according to 

 situation. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central and Western Alps ; Erzgebirge, 

 Vosges, Jura, Pyrenees, Transylvania, Balkans, Caucasus, Western 

 and Central Asia ; Steppes of Russia and Siberia ; North America. 



This beautiful Anemone likes rich, loamy soil, with plenty of 

 leaf -mould mixed with lime. Care should be taken to get up the 

 whole root of this and other members of the genus if success is to 

 be expected from collected specimens. 



Anemone apennina L. 



Root tuberous, blackish. Stem 6-10 inches high, slender, 

 glabrescent. Leaves resembling those of the common Wood 

 Anemone ; bracts of the involucre petioled, having the appearance 

 of leaves. Peduncle erect. Flowers pale blue, solitary. Sepals 

 10-15, almost linear. Carpels shortly pubescent, elliptic, with 

 glabrous beak. 



Woods and rocky places. April. 



Distribution. Southern Europe ; Italy, Corsica, Dalmatia, 

 Herzegovina, Montenegro, Corfu. Occasionally it is found in 

 plantations and woods in England, but is certainly not native. 



It looks best in large clumps, and is a very ornamental plant 

 for open shrubberies and glades, and for establishing round the base 

 of some tree which will allow the sun to open its flowers in spring, 

 but protect it from the fiercer heat of summer. A top-dressing of 

 leaf-mould and peat is beneficial. 



Anemone nemorosa L. Wood Anemone. 



Rhizome horizontal, nearly black, sending up 2 or 3 leaves 

 at the extremity and a single flower-stalk, either glabrous or slightly 

 downy. Leafstalks long, with 3 ovate or lanceolate leaflets, 

 toothed or lobed. Peduncle 3 to 8 inches high, with involucral 

 leaves at about two- thirds of its height, smaller, and on shorter 

 stalks than the real leaves. Sepals 6, white, often bluish or pinkish 

 outside, glabrous. Carpels downy, longly pointed, but not feathery. 



Woods of the sub-alps and plains, damp meadows and broad 

 hedges. March to May. 



Sometimes seen growing in Switzerland up to 6000 feet, as e.g. 

 on the Simplon Pass, where in June, 1908, we found it accompanied 

 by the Sulphur Anemone. The colour of the sub-alpine forms is 

 generally deeper than that of the plains. 



Distribution. Nearly all Europe ; North - west Asia, North 

 America. Abundant in Britain. 



Anemone ranunculoides L. 



Rhizome horizontal. Stem and whole plant about the size of the 



