NovEMBER 29, 1919.] 
ANEMONE HALLERI, A. PULSATILLA 
AND A. MONTANA 
W. R. Dy уса (Gard. Chron., 1917 
The Garden, 1919, 200), 
poen iade a careful th 
istic. S 
e 
E Anemone Рша Па, (ъа Fig. 
ontana from careful person: nal 
c 
7), а А. 
observations. 
As regards A. Halleri, one does not find v 
much written upon it in “gardening p ка АА, 
yet I suspect that many plan - grown as A. 
posu are, in pure ат Hall i 
ак oc ya ке r think the former 
igi 
Бб ot st iem [o 
. Halleri, and. probably for this reason 1 nursery: 
men frequently supply the latter when А. Pulsa 
tilla is ordered! 
ant 
у 
the pecific characters of Halleri, the 
original description (Allioni, Fl. Ped. TI., 170; 
Жы Ш; 1785) аз а folie :—Tota planta 
ea lanugine odas i Foliorum pinnae 
profundius & acutius incisae sunt. Flos autem 
ureus cu aliquo sericeo villo. 
Petala. utem tenera on dura firma 
ut in A. hurea, cujus petala flavo, denso 
sericeo villo teguntur. Semina sun 
congeneribus, cauda plu instructa 
This plant was called aller’s Anemon 
because e was ш s upon that author’s 
1148, Anemone caudati involucris 
mpltifidis, folüs каш ` innatis pinnis acute 
pus. Emend. VL, n. 30» (Hist stirp. 
lelvet, TI., 62, 1768). А long and careful 
Eo follows, but the Vc irme of the 
characters are contrasted with those of his 
No, 1147 ( i 
which is not very helpful 
note. 
à broad segmer D Pers not 
With numerous narrow divisions as in A, Pulsa- 
tilla, 15 in Relhan’s, Fl. Cantab., É 
fs 
Fi p. (1785) and Sow erby's, Zn пй. Bot., 
. Аш 
ау be worth recording the following points 
ENS er between A. с Ша and А. 
Halen. w bred I noted Mines rowing ‘both spec 
side by ny gan 
і pude be 
а 1 ў Mature aves silkily 
slightly hairy beneath, hairy beneati 
Involucrum, with Involucru m- 
distinct segments, the te, the upper part 
upper part | much less divided with 
divided into narrow slightly broader seg- 
segments. nents. 
Perianth Sigg Perianth oo 
narrow, not er- broader, always ove 
‘apping: hen a e lapping. 
flower is fully ex- 
panded in the sun 
Anthers oblong, ап Anthers linear- 
о or tuio as db as quond, about thrice as 
0 
6; im. in diam eter. 
Achenes eH mm Achenes 5-6 mm. 
with ascending- long, 
pa B hais. | including irs 
Style about 34-4 с 
ong. 
"^ 
top of oe “achene) in- 
cluding style 
4-44 , n 
лы у Fruiting receptacle 
pointed, rounde gry nia te 
\ , as wide the 
kened base 
шып 
о 
lé sky ag буво ios A, Pulsatilla A in the 
8 0 
Ho nal dece ion A. which 
oppe E ara in Sturm. неси "PI. Xil, 
1826), reads “ Mit doy efiederten Bla ttern, 
У the leaf character pera mentioned. 
Beyond 
THE ‚ GARDEN ERS ; 
about 
CHRONICLE. 
273 
vieltheiligen Blattchen gleich-breiten ee 
"s my aufrechter Offener Blüthe," and his figure 
. 46 ows 
а 
Е. 
g 
ght Mower ; 
disconcerting, but in part 
x Coch egre on 
plate and ex 
ri 
te (t. 90), АТАБ this r. 
re sao nese too, that the styles are 
1 re of A, montana often alluded 
to by la Sak rs—but particular attention is 
not called i this M. the text. 
his poi arly shown in "n drawing 
«The УА п, 1919, р. 200), апа 
a reliable КЎ “perman ent 
Бу! Мт. Dykes 
ne w onders if 
distinc tion. 
sides the 
wonderfully dark violet-purple 
colour of 
ared with the 
A. montana as com- 
mauve tint of A. 
758 
the flowers of A. 
more 
Fl. E: ed. 
i { 
— 
zl 
844) remarks that he —— the "styles 
are blue, whilst those ot x Pulsatilla are violet. 
Mr. Dykes (/.c.) ha ed an денти point 
of difference as “vo 8 УГ rrangement of the 
carpels of the two species when in flower, which 
ет valuable observation, 
hn Scienc , Gossi р for r.1885, pp. 84-85, there 
discussion, шгп an article by С. n- 
son on “ The nes of the i 
growers of TOA go e interesting plants vl 
xamine с ар > vanes cui 
d pointe of еас С. E. Salm 
GENERAL 
THE BULB GARDEN. 
CRINUM POWELLI 
r. S. AR in his note on E Crinum on 
Мы, iere ees he has no record of the 
ser. According to the late Mr. F. W. Bur- 
hidge e, in The Gardener for January 25, E 
Crinum dois was raised abo - fi 
years befo v at date-by Mr. ; 
all, So — Tünb bridge Wells. 
both the 
He crossed nd white forms of 
Crinum capense ( rig is longifolia) with 
pollen of Crinum Moorei, > result being a 
jet seedlings, with flowers varying in colour 
from — ose-crimson in the bud, to pure 
whit e plants were subsequently disposed 
Е. С. Henderson and Sons, of St. 
of to Маон 
John’ s Wood. 
VIOLET. 
COLOUR OF FLOWERS, 
уре the 
t firr rm were sold by 
E of plants 
bulbs of this Crinum aan through my hands 
and I was very much impressed with the size 
of some of the hu club-shaped ecimens 
n planting this Crinum in a permanent position 
the bulbs should be buried up to the leaves, or 
nearly so. This entail p working of the 
soil, "ere must be od q аы Д in order to 
support the Lu gr Jet usd wer production 
Stagna; nap rious, hence 
eek d rai у. V | the leaves 
and flowe re greatly 
ers the plants a 
benefited by lib JET: eig cook lies of water, varied by 
occasional waterings of liquid manure or some 
other fertiliser. W. 7. 
