Ranunculaccce A nemone. g 



11. A. nemorosa. Wood Anemone. This familiar inhabi- 

 tant of our copses and woods should be introduced into shrub- 

 beries and parks where it does not exist, being one of the hand- 



Fig. 6. Anemone elegaus. (J nat. size.) 



Anemone Pnlsatilla. (^ nat. size.) 



somest of our native Spring flowers. Sepals 5, glabrous, white 

 or tinged with purple. 



12. A. Apennina. Sepals numerous, bright azure blue. 

 Leaves and involucre ternate. April. This is naturalised in 

 some parts of Britain. A. bldnda is a near ally of this. 



13. A. palmata. A yellow-flowered species with reniform 

 obtusely lobed leaves and numerous narrow sepals. It grows 

 about 9 inches high, and is a very distinct and beautiful plant. 

 A native of the South of Europe, flowering in May. There is 

 a white and also a double variety of this species. 



4. ADONIS. 



A small genus of annual and perennial plants with compound 

 leaves very finely divided into thread-like segments. Flowers 

 yellow or red. Sepals 5 to 8, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5 to 

 16, destitute of glands. Carpels numerous, with 1 pendulous 

 seed in each. The species are limited to the temperate zone 



