n-h 468. Adonis. 85. RANUNCULACEvE. PL ex. thai 



1 . Adonis autumnalis. Autumn mailhes. 

 Calyx bald; petals concave, connivent, scarcely larger 



than the calyx ; cariopsides nearly reticulately collected into 

 an ovate head ; stem branched. ^ 



Flos Adonis, Raii Syn. 251, Park. Par. 29^ 

 Flos Adonis flore rubro, Ger. em^SSl^Jtr . -^ 



Adonis autumnalis, Lin. S. P. 7*?1. ^- ■'' 



.Adonis flower. Red maithcs. Red camomile. Rose-a-ruhy, Red mo- 

 rocco. ^ 



Corn-fields; annual; May and October. 

 Flowers blood-red. 



2. Adonis cestlvalis. Summer malthes. 

 Calyx hispid at bottom ; petals flat, oblong, obtuse, 



twice as long as the calyx ; cariopsides reticulately disposed 

 in a long loose spike ; stem scarcely branched. 



Adonis aestivalis, Lin. S. P. 772. 

 Adonis miniata, Jacquin Austr. 351. 



Corn-fields ; annual ; May to October. 

 Calyx long; flowers peduncled, small, dark red ; petals 

 oblong, blunt ; cariopsides distant on the spike. 



XIII. 469. ANEMONANTHiEA. De Cand. Anemone. 



Involucrum 3-leaved, distant from the flower ; calyx 5 to 

 15-sepaled; sepales petal-like; petals 0; stamens many, in- 

 definite ; cariopsides many, ovate, with a hooked more or 

 less hirsute style. — Plants stemless ; leaves radical ; peduncles 

 solitary or in pairs, leafless, 1 -flowered. 



a. Involucrum-leaflets petioled ; rhizoma ovate, tuherose ; 

 sepales 10 to 15. 



1. Anemonanthea Apennina. Apennine anemone. 



Leaves 3-ternately-cut ', segments lanceolate, deeply 

 toothed, teeth acute; petiole branched; involucral leaflets 

 petioled, 3-cut, deeply toothed ; sepales 12 or 14, oblong, 

 blunt. 



Anemone q. Rananculus aemorosus, flore purpureo cEeruleo Parkinson 

 (325), Dillen in Raii Syn. 259, 2. 



Anemone geranifolia, Ger. em. 377,8, 

 Anemone Apennina, Lin. S. P. 762. 

 Geranium-leaved anemone, Storlt's-bill wind-flower. 



Woods; perennial; April. 



Root black ; leaves longly petioled ; scape bald ; ivvolitcrum 

 like the leaves; pediccUs villous ; //ower5 upright, light 

 blue ; sepales 4 times as long as the stamens. 



