FLOWERING PLANTS. pli 
Leaves bi-pinnate, the segments pinnatifid, the ultimate lobes 
linear. 
Very local, growing on chalk downs and limestone pastures, in 
the counties of Berks, Oxford, Herts, Suffolk, Cambridge, Hunt- 
ingdon, Bedford, Northampton, Gloucester, Lincoln, and York. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock thick, somewhat woody, producing a rosette of shortly- 
stalked leaves, which do not attain their full size until some time 
after the flowers fade. lLeaf-stalks woolly. Leaves with long 
rather distant hairs, especially along the petiole and its sub- 
divisions. Inyolucre from 2 to 4 inches above the base of the scape, 
which bears a single flower about an inch higher up. Flower 
opening fully only in sunshine, erect but drooping after it begins to 
fade. Sepals 6, light purple, paler and silky on the outside. The 
part of the scape above the insertion of the involucre continues to 
erow until it is from 3 to 6 inches above that point by the time 
the fruit is mature. Head of fruit erect, globular. Achenes 
oblong-fusiform, pilose, brown; their bent feathery tails about an 
inch and a half long. Plant more or less hairy. 
Pasque Flower. Anemone. 
French, Anémone. German, Windblume. 
Anemone, wind-flower, from avepoc (anemos), wind, because it is supposed the flowers 
do not expand until blown by the wind. The specific name, from pvlso, I beat, is 
in allusion to the same conditions, being beaten by the wind. The Anemone. although 
frequently choosing exposed and windy places for its habitation, is by no means 
a sturdy flower. Its delicate petals are easily scattered, and we are reminded of the 
poetical allusion of Sir W. Jones :— 
“Youth, like a thin Anemone, displays 
His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.” 
This species possesses the properties of the order. The leaves and flowers have an 
irritant and corrosive quality; if placed on the tongue, they will produce blisters, and 
the roots, if administered internally, will occasion nausea and sickness. The extracted 
juice has been used as an external application in cases of paralysis and amaurosis. The 
juice of the petals will stain paper green, and has been used to colour the Paschal eggs 
in some countries ; whence it has been supposed the English name is derived. Gerarde, 
however, expressly informs us that he himself was “moved to name” this the Pasque 
flower, or Easter flower, because of the time of its appearance. 
Sus-Genus II.—EU-ANEMONE. 
Stamens all bearing anthers. Styles short, little changed when 
the fruit is ripe. Involucre distant from the flower. 
