BER’! “Tt StH HB Re BrA LE, 
Barrilier calls it Caryophyllata alpina tennui folia 
incana fore luteo longius radicata. C, Bauhine, 
Caryophyllata alpina apii folio. 
Io The 
The virtues are probably the fame with thofe 
of the others: but it ftands particularly recom- 
mended as a vulnerary. 
GBI Niet, US Bcc! VER 
PASQUEFLOWER, 
PULSATILLA. 
"THE flower confifts of fix petals; and the feeds are furnifhed with downy threads. There is a kind 
of leafy cup which ftands remote, but belongs to the flower. : 
This is one of the polyandria polygynia of Linneus; but it is properly of the fame clafs with the pre. 
cedent: nature has joined it to them by plain charaéters, tho” Linnzus feparates it upon {mall varia~ 
tions. In this clafs it properly conneéts the avens and anemone; its feeds being furnifhed with a 
hairy or thready matter, tho finer and more delicate than that of thofe robuft plants. : 
We hall only interpofe between this and the anemone, a genus nearly allyed to it, that of 
the clematis, which, tho’ very different in the fubftance of the ftalks and manner of growing, yet 
perfectly refembles it in the feathered feeds. : : : 
"Linnaeus, in his Genera Plantarum, allows the pulfatilla to be a diftin& genus; but in his Species. 
Plantarum, fince publifhed, he makes it'only a fpecies of anemone. We fee here a fecond inftance of 
what was before obferved, that the fondnefs for making new diftinctions gets the better of this au- 
thor’s earlier knowledge. The particular remote cup, we have mentioned in the charaéters of this 
genus, diftinguithes ic fufficiently, as fuch, fromthe anemone; and this author himfelf once thought 
fo: At prefent, he not only includes this, but among the hepatica alfo, the fpecies of anemone: 
thus, taking away the ufé of thofe antient and univerfally received names, and calling the plants by 
that of the anemone, from which they are fufficiently diftinguithed. 
OF the fpecies of pa/queflower there is but one a native of Britain, 
DIVISION fF, 
Pafqueflower. 
Pulfatilia, 
The root is large, long, and thick; it is fre- 
quently divided into feveral heads, and they are 
tufted with the remains of decayed foot{talks of 
leaves. The colour is blackifh, and the tafte 
bitter and acrid. 
The leaves ftand on footftalks of four inches 
long, and are beautifully divided into a number 
of {mall parts. Thefe footftalks are redith at the 
bottom, hairy, and moderately thick. ‘The 
leaves alfo are hairy, and of a thick fubftance. 
The ftalk is round, hairy, hollow, and weak. 
While it fupports the flower it is about fix inches 
in height ; but when that is fallen, it thoots up 
toa foot. This feems a provifion of nature for 
feattering of the feeds, the wind having more 
power upon them, as they ftand higher.. There 
are no leaves on this ftalk except one, which 
we have there called a fort of cup to the flower. 
This ftands always in one certain place, which is 
DIVISION 
1, Pinnate-leaved Pafqueflower. 
Pulfatilla foliis pinnatis. 
The root is long, black, large, and divided 
into many heads. 
The leaves ftand on footftalks of four inches 
long, and are compofed of feveral pairs of obtufe 
pinnz: divided deeply at the edges. They are 
-of a firm, hard fubftance, a pale green colour, 
and hairy. 
- The ftalk is five inches high, hollow, weak, 
and hairy. The flower is remarkably large, and 
- ttauds fingle at the top, each ftalk bearing but 
sone. It is compofed of fix long and ‘broad pe- 
FO 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
alittle below the flower ; and is divided into ma- 
ny fimall parts, and is very hairy. This leaf 
furrounds the ftalk at its bafe, and is there of one 
entire piece, its divifions beginning at a little dif- 
tance above. 
The flower ftands on the top of the ftalk, and 
each ftalk has only one. - It is large, purple, hairy 
without, and fmooth within ; and is compofed 
of fix petals, which are pointed at theends. It 
has little fmell, but that is very agreeable. In 
the centre ftands a tuft of threads with yellow 
heads, furrounding a button, which afterwards 
becomes the head of feeds, covered with long, 
filvery hairs. When the plant is in feed the leaf 
which ferved as a cup, ftand on the middle of the 
ftalk ; for the ftalk grows in length only in the 
upper part, 
It is found wild on Gogmagog hills in Cam- 
bridgefhire, and in fome parts of Lincolnhhire, 
and Yorkthire ; and flowers in April. 
J. Bauhine calls it Pulfatilla purpurea cerulea, 
C. Bauhine, Pulfatilla folio craffore et majore flore. 
REIGN SPECT s 
tals, and has a great tuft of threads in the centre. 
Under it there ftands fuch a fingular leaf, as in 
the common pa/queflower, forming a kind of cup. 
The flower ftands ere@; but is uncertain in 
colour, It is moft ufually of a pale yellow : 
fometimes it is of a deeper yellow, and fomes 
times white. ‘Thefe are lef remarkable variati- 
ons; for we fee many flowers changing, according 
to the culture or natural accidents, from a very 
deep colour, through (all ‘the Stadations of the 
fame colour into white : ‘but what is fingular in 
ea 7 that the flower is fometimes alfo purple. 
the whole plant remaining in i 
adtly the festa’ : is 
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