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sions as fine as hairs, and with small but rich dark 

 scarlet flowers, called Adonis, or Pheasant's eye. 

 This plant agrees with the Crowfoot in its structure, 

 in almost every point : but its petals have not a scale 

 near their base, on which account Adonis is reckoned 

 a plant of the same tribe, but is separated as a distinct 

 genus. 



Another and charming little collection of pretty 

 flowers is formed by the Anemones, with their purple, 

 or white, or scarlet petals, which modestly hang their 

 heads, as if unwilling to expose their beauty to every 

 curious eye. These have the calyx and corolla mixed 

 together, so that vou cannot disting-uish the one from 

 the other ; and when their flowers are gone, they 

 bear little tufts of feather}' tails, or oval woolly 

 heads, in the place of the clusters of gi'ains which 

 you found in the Ranunculus. Such tails or heads of 

 wool, are collections of the grains of the Anemone, 

 and contain the seeds ; the tails themselves are no- 

 thing but the styles of the carpels, grown large and 

 hard and hairy ; they are thought to be intended by 

 nature as wings, upon which the grains mav be car- 

 ried by the Tvind from place to place. If you look 

 at the leaves, or the stamens, or the young carpels, or 

 the ripe seeds of the Anemone, you will find all those 

 parts constructed, in every essential respect, like 

 the Crowfoot. Hepaticas, which you have so often 

 seen thriving, when neglected, in a cottage garden, 

 when, perhaps, they perished under your own con- 

 tinual care, as if they were created specially for the 

 pleasure of the poor, are nothing but Anemones, with 



