THE POPPY ANEMONE. 



A)icmone coronarla, 



HE familiar name of this fine 

 border flower is admirably de- 

 scriptive, especially for the large 

 crimson and scai'let varieties 

 with black centres that very 

 closely resemble poppies, but 

 show themselves six weeks or 

 more in advance of any true 

 poppy either in field or garden. 

 And the flower is not far re- 

 moved from the poppy in its 

 essential characters, although in 

 the books the dillenias, the mag- 

 nolias, the berberries, and the 

 water-lilies come between them. 

 In his "Vegetable Kingdom," 

 Dr. Lindley, sf)eaking of the 

 order of poppies, says : — "The 

 greatest affinities are with the crowfoots, from which it 

 is sometimes extremely difficult to know this order with- 

 out ascertaining that the juice is milky and narcotic." All 

 the crowfoots, comprising the ranunculus, anemone, clematis, 

 hellebore, and aconite, have watery and acrid juices, while 

 the poppies are characterised by milky and narcotic juices. 



