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SH HERBAL, 
G EON 
Uneeds IX. 
WINDEFLOWER. 
ANEMONE. 
HIE Rower of the anemone is large, and confifts of an uncertain number of petals with a great 
tuft of fhort threads in the centre, 
There is not that fingle and particular leaf at fome dif- 
tance under the flower, which is feen in the pulfatilla; but the leaves naturally ftand in a regular 
order about the middle of the ftalk, three rifing together. ; ‘ 
Linnzus places this among the polyandria polygynia. In his Genera Plantarum it ftands feparate fro 
the pulfatilla; but in his fucceeding works he has joined them, as we have obferved, under that 
article, 
The Englifh name of this genus is wind-flower ; but it is difwfed, and we have adopted the Latin . 
word entirely. 
DIVISION JI, 
1. White Wood-Anemone: 
Anemone nemorum alba. 
The root is thick, oblong, and creeps irregu- 
larly under the furface. While young, it is yel- 
Jowifh ; when older, of a redith brown ; whitith 
within, furnifhed with many fibres, and of an 
auftere and very acrid tate. 
The leaves that rife immediately from the root 
ftand on long flender footftalks, and are large 
and beautifully divided. The footftalk is pur- 
plith, and fomewhat hairy, and the divifions of 
the leaf large and indented. 
The ftalk is flender, weak, round, and eight 
inches high. . It is purplifh at the bottom, and 
green upwards, 
The leaves grow with regularity upon it. 
‘They are three : they all rife from the fame place, 
and ftand on moderately long footftalks, They 
are beautifully divided, and their footftalks are 
redifh, and fomewhat hairy. The place of thefe 
is a little higher than the middle of the ftalk ; 
and from this it is again naked to the top. 
The flower ftands fingle on the top of the ftalk. 
It confifts of fix oblong and large leaves, _and has 
a tuft of threads with yellow heads in the centre, 
Its colour is ufually white, often redifh, or with 
more or lefs of a purplifh tinge, 
The feeds follow in a button or little clufter, 
‘which is rough, each’ feed having a hooked 
“fhort beard. 
woods. It flowers in April. 
J. Bauhine calls it Ranunculus phragmites albus 
& purpureus vernus. C. Bauhine, Anemone nemo- 
rofa flore majore, 
Its virtues are unknown ; but there is fuch an 
acrid tafte in every ‘part of it, that it would feem 
unfafe to try it internally. 
A {mall winged infe& is apt to depofit its egos 
on the underpart of the leaves of this {pecies ; 
and they fomewhat refemble the round dots in 
which the feeds of fern-are lodged. A leaf of it 
thus decorated is unluckily reprefented in a figure 
in the laft edition of Ray’s Synopfis, The form, 
fubftance, and difpofition of thefe dots ought to 
have informed the botanift they were not feeds, 
At is a juftice we owe the memory of Mr. Ray to 
Tt is a native of England, and common in 
BAR eT 1 SoH ee Seb. b.C.lgp. ss 
; obferve, that although this error ftands in a work 
authorifed-by his name, it is not to be charged 
to his account. The defcription p, 124. and fi- 
gure, tab. 3. of that work, are both added by the 
late Dr. Dellenius, botanical profeflor at Oxford, 
who faw the plant under the name of a fern in 
the collection of Bobart. He therefore was the 
perfon firft impofed upon: The plant was given 
him, whether ignorantly or in wantonnefs, by a 
perfon whom he calls the Conjurer of. Chal- 
grave, 
2. Large-leaved Wood-Anemone. 
Anemone foliis majoribus flore violaceo. 
The root is long, flender, irregularly fhaped, 
and {preads under the-furface ; the colour is a deep 
brown, and the tafte more fiery and acid than 
the laft, 
The leaves ftand on footftalks two inches 
long, and refemble thofe of the common qwood- 
anemone in form, fize, and divifion. The foot- 
ftalks are purple at the bottom, and the leaves of 
a fhining green; 
The ftalk is five inches high, round, flender, 
purple toward the bottom, and weak. 
The leaves on the ftalk are three. They all 
grow from the fame fpot, aud have fearce any 
footftalk. They are large, and of a beautiful 
green. They are divided into three large parts, 
and then deeply into feveral {maller. 
The flower ftands fingly at the top of the 
ftalk, and has no cup. Its colour is a deep vio- 
let blue; and it has a great tuft of yellow threads 
in the centre. The petals are oblong, and ob- 
tufe at the end. Their number is uncertain, frona 
fix to twelve or fifteen; in which later cafe they 
are very narrow. : 
This is a fort of doubling of the flower, but 
it is natural to it often without culture, and alfo 
to the common white wood kind. 
The feeds ftand in a fmall rough clufter. 
It is a native of moft of the cold parts of Eu- 
rope. I have found it in Charleton foreft, and 
in one of the places mentioned in Mr. Ray’s Sy- 
nopfis, in Surry. ‘ 
Mentzelius calls it Ranunculus mumerofus Store 
ceruleo foliis majoribus Apenini montes, 
DIVI. 
