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but they always form a single whorl, and when closely examined they will 

 always be found united at the base into tliree. 



Flowers purple, silliT outside. Carpels end'ng in feathery awns . . 1. Pasqiie A. 

 Flowers white or pink, glabrous. Carpels ending in a point .... 2. Wood A. 



Several species from continental or soutliern Europe, are ctdtivated in our 

 gardens, especially tlie A. pratensis, the Hepatica {A. Hepatiaa), wliich has 

 the involucre so close to tlie flower as to assume the appearance of a calyx. 

 Two other South European species the Apenniiie A. {A. apennina, Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1062) and the yellow A. {A. ranuncu/oides, Eng. Eot. t. 14-84), both 

 ■with the habit and carpels of the wood A., but the one with briglit blue, 

 the other with yellow flowers, appear to have occasionally strayed into our 

 woods and plantations, and have therefore been included in most British 

 Floras. 



1. Pasque Anemone. Anemone Pulsatilla, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 51. Pasque-flower.) 



Eootstock thick and woody. Radical leaves on long stalks, covered when 

 young with silky hairs, and two or three times divided into long linear seg- 

 ments. Flower-stalk 5 to 8 inches high, with the involucre at fii'st near the 

 flower, but becoming gradually more remote as the fruit ripens, and consisting 

 of three sessile leaves, deeply cut into hnear segments. Flower solitary, 

 large, vnih 6 sepals of a dull violet-purple, very silky outside. Awns of the 

 carpels long and feathery, like those of a Clematis. 



In open limestone pastures, in the greater part of Europe and Russian 

 Asia, but not very far northwards. Distributed over several parts of Eng- 

 land, but wanting in Scotland. Fl. spring. 



2. >Vood Anemone. Anemone nenxorosa, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 355.) 



Rootstock black and horizontal, emitting from its extremity two or three 

 leaves and a si'^gle flower-stalk, all glabrous or bi\t slightly downy. Leaf- 

 stalks long, with three ovate or lantfeolate leaflets, toothed orlobed, or often 

 divided almost to the base into three similarly shaped segments. Peduncle 

 3 to 6 or 8 inches high, the involucral leaves at about two-thirds of its 

 height, like the radical ones, but smaller, with shorter stalks. Sepals 6, 

 white or reddish outside, and perfectly glabrous. Carpels downy, with a 

 point nearly as long as themselves, but not featliery. 



Common in and near woods, throughout Europe and Russian Asia, except 

 the extreme north. Abundant in Britain. Fl. early spring. 



IV. ADONIS. ADONIS. 



Characters those of Ranunculus, except that the petals have no nectary, 

 although they are often more deeply coloured at the base, and that the seed 

 is suspended, not erect, in the carpel. 



The species are few, chiefly from southern Em-ope and western Asia, 

 and have mostly red or straw-coloured flowers. 



1. Comn\on Adonis. Adonis autumnalis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 308. Pheasant's Fye.) 

 An erect annual, from 8 inches to a foot or rather more, glabrous or 



