ANEMONES 
ANEMONES 
Natural Order Ranunculacejs. Genus Anemone 
Anemone (Greek, (memos , the wind). Perennial herbs with leaves all 
radical, lobed or divided. Flowers mostly solitary, on scapes provided with 
an involucre of three-parted .leaf-like bracts. Sepals, petal-like, coloured 
blue, purple, red, yellow, white (rarely yellow), varying from four to 
twenty. Petals absent, but the outer row of the numerous stamens are 
sometimes partially developed into petals. The fruit is a head of achenes, 
sometimes with bearded styles. There are about seventy species, distri¬ 
buted over the cold and temperate regions, chiefly of the N. Hemisphere. 
Anemones have had their place in English gardens for. 
History. ,, . , , „ . r ® . „ 
three hundred years, for A. coronaria was introduced from 
the Levant in 1596. A. hcn'tensis followed from South Europe in the 
ensuing year. For a considerable portion of this long period these species 
have enjoyed great popularity, but of late years the more recently intro¬ 
duced (1844) A. japonica has been in greater favour. Still, the old Poppy 
Anemones and Garden Anemones, as A. coronaria and A. hortensis are 
respectively called, have many admirers, and are likely always to keep a 
place in herbaceous gardens. Anemones contribute largely to the beauty 
of our gardens from early spring, when the Hepaticas are in bloom, to 
late in the autumn, when A. japonica and its varieties are at their best. 
Much has been done to improve and vary the most popular of the species, 
particularly by the French and Dutch gardeners, especially among the 
Hepaticas, the Japanese, the Poppy and the Star Anemones. 
Anemone coronaria (garland). The Poppy Anemone. 
” South Europe. Tuberous rooted, 18 inches high, with ter- 
nate leaves, the segments minutely divided. Flowers with great range of 
colour variation, from white through pink, rose, scarlet, purple to blue, as 
well as variegated colours. Sepals, six, oval, in contact The exceedingly 
numerous florists’ varieties are all beautiful. Flowers, March to May. 
A. hortensis (garden). Star Anemone. South Europe. Similar to 
coronaria, but the leaves are tougher and the segments not so finely 
divided as in that species; the sepals are more spreading, and there is a 
distinct “ eye ” of a second colour in the centre of the flower. Certain 
well-defined forms, such as steUata and Pavonina, are regarded by some 
botanists as distinct species, by others as mere varieties. A well-known 
variety is fulgens, the Scarlet Anemone, with brilliant vermilion sepals, 
which are rendered all the more dazzling by contrast with the mass of 
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