Ranuncu lacece A nemone. 7 



species with larger sky-blue flowers. Leaves hairy when young, 

 on long petioles, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes rounded or acute. 

 Flowers more than an inch in diameter. Scape twice as high 

 a<s the leaves. A native of Hungary, flowering in March and 

 April. 



2. Involucre, distant from the sepals. 



The true Anemones may be subdivided into two classes. The 

 first including the species from which the numerous garden 

 varieties have descended, and the second the remaining orna- 

 mental species. The florists' varieties are believed to be the 

 offspring of the two next species, and crosses between them. 



3. A. Coronaria. The Poppy Anemones of our gardens 

 belong to this species. Both this and the next have spreading 

 flowers in the single varieties, and are very similar in general 

 appearance. The foliage of this form or species is of a more 



Fig. 5. Anemone Coronaria flore pleno. (J nat. size.) 



delicate texture, and the flowers of one uniform colour, or at 

 least without a distinct eye. The varieties, both double (fig. 5) 

 and single, are numerous and beautiful, of various shades of 

 purple, violet, and almost a pure blue, rose, pink, and white. 

 A native of the Levant. 



