ANEMO'NE VITIFO'LIA. 
~'VINE-LEAVED ANEMONE. 
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Natural division 
to whic’ — 
this Plant belongs 
NATURAL ORDER, RANUNCULACEZ. 
THALAMIFLORE, / Artificial divisions 
OF to which 
DECANDOLLE. this Plant belongs 
No. 9. 
POLYANDRIA, 
POLYGYNIA, 
OF LINNEUS. 
G US. Axemons. Caspar Bavatin, Involucrum 3-folium a flore distans, 
foliolis incisis. Calyx petaloideus, 5-15-sepalus. Petala nulla, DEcANDOLLE. 
SPECIES, Anemone vittrouia. Bucwanan.  Foliis rotundato-cordatis, 
5-7-lobis, subtus cauleque adpressé lanuginosis, radicalibus longé petiolatis; in- 
volucellis subsessilibus trifidis; sepalis ovalibus extus sericeis; pistillis superne 
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glabris; caryopsidibus pedicellatis, muticis, densissimé lanuginosis. W4LLicH. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Anemone. Involucre three-leaved dis- 
tant from the flower, its leaflets cut or incised, “CALYX petaloid, the 
sepals varying in number from 5 to 15. PETALS absent. 
Descriprion oF THE SPECIES, ANEMONE VITIFOLIA. PLANT erect, 
from two to three feet high, suffruticose below, herbaceous above, spar- 
ingly branched; while young, clothed with a white closely adpressed 
pubescence, less so as it grows older. Root perpendicular, subfusi- 
tm. STEM round, twice or thrice almost dichotomously divided, 
branched. Brancues erect, elongated. RADICAL LEAVES numerous, 
bessile, unequal, about 5 inches long, 3-5 lobed, Loses ovate, subac- 
cuminate. Perioves channeled, dilated at the base, amplexicaul. 
PEDUNCLES terminal, erect, cylindrical, villous, generally three, some- 
times more, of which some are trifid at the middle, furnished with an 
‘nvolucellum, three-flowered, the others one-flowered, 3-5 inches long, 
those which bear the perfect seeds being the longest. The involucel- 
lum of leaflets about an inch long, which are subsessile, three-cleft and 
Serrated. FLowers large, opening wide, nearly two inches across, 
white or faintly tinged with yellow, external surface clothed with a silky 
own of a light violet hue. Sepats six or eight, oval, obtuse, nearly 
3: REFERENCE TO THE DissECTIONS- 
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1, A longitudinal section of the receptacle, 2, An anther, magnified. 
