MOUNTAIN 

 ANEMONE. 



A)icmone apcnnina. 



OTANISTS have too much to 



say about British plants that 



are possibly not British. This 



lovely blue anemone occurs 



wild in Bedfordshire, Surrey^ 



Herts^ and Berks. One 



writer calls it an alien, but 



adds that it is spread through 



the landfrom Devon to Banff, 



and has been long established 



in Surrey. This statement 



may be right, but it may be 



wrong, and the evil to be 



complained of is that jjositive 



statements are founded on 



negative evidence. We will 



suppose that long before 



the British islands were 



separated from the continent of Europe, this anemone, with 



others, such as nemorosa, pulsatilla, and ranunculoides, 



had its place here, and assisted to maintain the floral con' 



nection between what is now Britain and the great lands 



eastwards and northwards of -which it was the western 



promontory. The conditions may have been such that 

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