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Plate 4. 

 ANEMONE, Tourn. 



Calyx 4 - 20-sepalus, asstivatione imbricatus. Petala seu 

 stamina sterilia nulla. Achenia stylis brevibus (nudis lana- 

 tisve) parum mutatis coronata. Involucrum a flore remotum, 

 foliis radicalibus conforme. 



Anemone, Tourn. Inst. t. 147. Willd. Enum. |>. 581. Ledeb. I. c. 

 Wind-Flower. 



Calyx of 5 to 20, rarely 4, petaloid sepals, imbricated in 

 aestivation, spreading, deciduous. Petals none. Stamens 

 indefinite, hypogynous : filaments filiform, glabrous : an- 

 thers fixed by the base, rasher extrorse, or innate, the cells 

 opening longitudinally. Pistils numerous (rarely 15 to 20), 

 capitate-imbricated on the globular, conical-oblong, or cylin- 

 drical receptacle (gynophore) : ovary one-celled, one-ovuled : 

 style short, stigmatose from the apex downward along the 

 inner side. Ovule suspended, anatropous ; the raphe dorsal. 



Fruit a head of sessile compressed achenia, tipped with 

 the straight or uncinate, short and unchanged or scarcely 

 elongated, naked or woolly styles. Receptacle naked or 

 hairy. Seed suspended from the summit of the cell. 

 Albumen between corneous and fleshy. Embryo minute, 

 next the hilum, cordate : radicle superior. 



Herbs, with perennial roots or rootstocks, upright stems, 

 which are simple and naked, except the 3-leaved invo- 

 lucre, and one-flowered, or umbellately several-flowered, or 

 sometimes producing lateral involucellate peduncles from 

 the axils of the involucral leaves, which may again fork or 

 branch at the two-leaved involucel. Involucral leaves usually 

 palmately lobed, or tri - quinately compound, remote from the 

 flower (at the base of the peduncles), resembling the proper 

 or radical leaves. Petioles dilated at the base. Flowers 



