an inch in length, spreading, somewhat unequal, the bases of the in- 
ner ones somewhat contracted or narrowed. STAMENS numerous, 
smooth, very short, somewhat sprébithh and ascending. PIsTILs very 
numerous, acute, smooth above, villous. CARYOPSES small compres- — 
sed, with a delicate stalk, not pointed or awned at the apex, but covered 
with long snowy wool, and the whole forming a white globular head. 
Porvtar AND GrograpnicaL Notice. This genus of plants, as its 
Greek name implies, was known to the ancients, but the only species 
with which they were acquainted, was the Anemone coronaria of mod- 
ern botanists. It was in reference to that species that in the indulgence 
of their fancy, and carried away by a graceful, but erroneous, mythol- 
ogy, they invented the fable of the Anemone originating in the grief of 
Venus for the loss of Adonis, (Aiwa 6ddov rucret, ra. dt Sdepua Tay dvepivar; 
his blood produces the rose, her tears the Anemone). The number of 
species known at present may be reckoned 65 or 70, exclusive of the 
Hepaticas, most of which inhabit the woods, thickets, and mountains 
of the temperate regions, more especially of the northern hemisphere. 
Anemone vitifolia was discovered by Dr. Hamilton Buchanan, at 
Suemba in Upper Nepaul, where, according to Dr. Wallich “It grows 
in all the forests of the great valley and the surrounding mountains, 
delighting in the most shady, retired, and moist situations, in the vici- 
nity of rills and torrents.” It has been since found at Kamoun? in 
similar places, and also near Gossam-Than, in the Himalaya. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This showy species of 
Anemone was introduced to England, in 1829, by seeds brought from 
India, by the Rt. Hon. the Countess Amherst, and cultivated in her 
Ladyship's choice collection at Montreal, Kent. For the specimen 
Lady Harriet Clive. Her Ladyship’s Gardener at Hewell, Mr. Mark- 
ham, informs us that the seeds were sown in October, the young plants 
kept in the greenhouse till May, then put out into beds, where they 
flowered luxuriantly from August to November inclusive. Spring- 
sown plants will not blossom till the following year. Increase may 
be obtained by cutting the crowns of the roots into pieces. ~~ 
DeERrvaTIon oF THE NaMEs. 
conan wind- flower, from é divepoc, ANEMOS, the wind, as many of the nase 
3 on 
OW CI a 
. in windy alii situations. It is necessary to remark that when used as a Ie. 
inward the quantity of the penultimate or last syllable but one of anem 
is long, while as an English word custom authorizes the nae chy Bate 
made short. Vitifolia, from vitis, a vine, and folium, a 
SYNONYMEs. 
NE ViTIFoLIA. Buchanan, in the herbarium of Mr. Lambert. Decan- 
aolte, Syste a Naturale Regni vegetabilis, Vol. 1, p. 211. Decandolle, Pro- 
hoatgany of Gardening and Botany Vol. 1. p. 20. Wallich, in Botanical Reg- 
»1835, Don,Prodromus Flore Nepalensis,p.193. Botanical Magazine,3376. 
