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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 dedu plication of the 

 interior ones, and their replacement by 

 pairs of appendages, or owing to the 

 gradual transformation of the outer 

 stamens into coloured blades, so that 

 the flower tends to become double/ 

 In A. nemorosa L., the Wood Anemone 

 (Fr. S^Ivie, figs. 79, SO), 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 RammcuU, 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 usually all fertile ; 

 but in PuIsatiUa^ 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 



Anemone nemorosa. 



being sur- 



FiG. 80. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 79. 



mounted by a slightly projecting horn, may be produced above 

 into a long bearded tail; and many authors have used these 



^ See on the subject of Anemones with double 

 flowers the now classical work of De Candolle 

 {/. cit., 388) which contains the names given by 

 florists to the different parts of the double iiowers 

 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 beconae sterile, still retaining, however, 

 somewhat of the normal form and tint. The 

 largest, si)athulate jjctaloid blades, which are 

 found towards the centre of the llowcr, and are 



the better developed as they approach it, are duo 

 to the metamorphosis of the carpels. 



- Prodr., i. -0. In some years and localities 

 the Wood Anemones have always six sepals ; 

 those with eight sepals have been ctinnnon this 

 year [1867 ? 'J'kans.] at Meudon. In this species, 

 as in many others, the llower droops as it IVuctifies. 

 AuANSON calls the \\'ood Anemone "Ori/ia" 

 [loc. cit., 459). 



3 Anemone Pulxatilla L., Spec, 7r>9. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. \7.—Pul.ia/illa 1\, l,i.ifi/.,'2Sl, t. Ik). 

 — Si'At'ii, iSuif. d BiiJ)'., vii. 253. 



