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1. Fine-leaved red Anemone.: 
Anemone tenuifolia flore rubente. 
The root is large, thick, and of an irregular 
form. : 
The leaves are numerous: they rife from 
feveral heads of the fame root, a clufter from 
each; and have footftalks of two or three inches 
in length. ‘They are large, and in the whole of 
a fomewhat triangular form. Each is divided 
into. three principal parts, two at the bottom, 
and one at the end; and thefe are again deeply 
indented. 
The ftalk is robuft, purplifh near the bot- 
tom, and ten inches high. 
Toward its middle there ftand three leaves, 
all growing from one place ; and they are fmall, 
“and have no footftalks. They refemble the tepa- 
"rate divifions of the lower leaves. . 
The flower is fingle, large, and of a pale red: 
not rarely it is white, or very faintly tinged : 
but red is the natural colour. It is compofed of 
fix leaves, and has a large tuft of threads in the 
middle... ‘ 
The feeds ftand in a fmall naked button. 
It is a native. of the Eaft, and flowers in the 
fpring. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Asemone tenuifolio fimplici 
"We had it originally from Conftantinople ; and 
it is raifed to great beauty, and with great va- 
riety in our gardens, by being made double, and 
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FOREIGN SPECIES: 
of a variety of colours; from the deepeft red with 
a purple tinge, to the paleft fefh colour, 
2. \Trifoliate Anemone. 
Anemone trifolia. 
The root is long and flender, ‘and {preads un: 
der the furface of the ground, dividing into fe= 
vera] parts, and fending up leaves from many 
heads. Its colour is brown, its tafte acrid, and 
it has many fibres. 
The leaves ftand three on each footftalk ; and 
are of an oval figure, pointed, ferrated, and 
without feparate footftalks; adhering by their 
bafe to the top of the ftalk rifing from the 
root, which is three inches long, flender, and 
purplifh. 
The ftalk is fix inches high, round, weak, and 
purplith. 
~ The leaves are three on this ftalk. They all 
rife from the fame point, and have long foor- 
ftalks, each confifting of three other diftin@ 
leaves, and in all refpeéts refembling thofe that 
rife immediately from the root. 
The flower is large and beautiful. It is white, 
with a blufh of purple, and refembles the Aower - 
of the common wood-anemone. It is compofed of: 
fix petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre. 
The feeds follow in a naked head. ‘ 
It is a native of France, and fome other parts 
of Europe, and flowers in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anemone trifolia flore albos 
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PLEASANT EYE. 
ADONIS. 
HE flower of the adonis confifts of an uncertain number of petals, with a tuft of extremely thort 
ai threads in the centre: the feeds ftand naked in a longifh head; and the leaves are divided 
into fine fegments. 
Linnzus places it among the polyendria polyeynia ; and he very juftly reduces to this genus that 
plant commonly known by the name of jive-leaved black bellebore. That is indeed a fpecies of adonis 
and they were guilty of introducing confufion into the fcience who called it by the name of another 
genus, to which it by no means belongs. Linnzus deferves praife, that he calls this a fpecies of 
adonis; and it were to be wifhed he had not admitted the real black hellebores into the fame clafs. 
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1. Common Adonis. 
Adonis radice annua. 
: The root is long, flender, whitifh, and fur- 
nifhed with large fibres. : 
‘The firft leaves are large, divided into a great 
number of fmall and. fine fegments, and placed 
6n footftalks of two inches long. They are of a 
pale green colour, and tender fubftance. 
The ftalks are round, ftriated,. green, anda 
foot and half high. They divide into many 
branches, and ftand tolerably upright. 
The leaves grow on them irregularly, and are 
like thofe which rife from the foot, but fmaller, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches : 
they are moderately large, and of a beautiful fcar- 
let colour; and are compofed of an uncertain 
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BURST 1s JF eS) PAB. (Gplest oo. 
numiber of petals, with a bundle of threads, ha¥- 
ing deep putple heads, in the centre. 2 
The feeds ftand naked in a longifh clutter. 
It is common in fome parts of England in 
corn-fields, and flowers in Auguft ; it is no where 
} fo frequent as in Kent and Siffex. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Flos adonis vulgo aliis eran. 
themum ; others Adonis, and Flos adonis. 
The flower is fometimes of a purplifh colour, and 
the leaves are fometimes longer than in the eom- 
mon ftate of the plant. Thefe are varieties only 3 
but they have been defcribed as feparate fpecies. 
It has not been any where much uféd in me- 
dicine. Some recommend an infufion of the 
flowers in wine for cholicks ; but there are many 
better remedies; and this wants the authority of 
more experience, y 
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