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Wood Anemone, which it much resembles in habit as well as in 

 habitat. Leaves spring far from the stem, with 3-5 shortly petioled 

 segments ; leaflets of the involucre shortly petioled and resembling 

 true leaves. Flowers bright yellow, usually solitary, but some- 

 times in twos or threes. Sepals 5-8 oval. Carpels pubescent, 

 with long glabrous beak. 



Woods and meadows, and damp, shady places, ^nd by streams, 

 especially on a limestone soil. March to May. 



Distribution. — Throughout France, including the mountains 

 above the Riviera, though rare elsewhere in the South, and fairly 

 spread through Europe, though rare in Switzerland except in the 

 Jura ; Western Asia. 



Occasionally found in England and the south of Scotland, but is 

 probably not indigenous. It is a useful plant to naturahse in shrub- 

 beries, but in this country it is rarely seen so fine as on the Continent, 

 as, for example, in Savoy, in the neighbourhood of Aix-les-Bains,etc. 



Anemone sylvestris L. 



Root short with matted fibres. Stem 10-20 inches high or more, 

 slender, downy. Leaves downy, cut into 5 rhomboidal segments, 

 bi-trifid, toothed irregularly. Leaflets of the involucre stalked, 

 resembling true leaves ; peduncle always erect. Flowers white, 

 large, solitary. Sepals 5-8, oval, silky outside. Carpels woolly, 

 numerous, forming a tight oblong head. 



Woody places and stony hiUs ; rare. May, June. 



Distribution. — North of France, Alsace-Lorraine, Central Europe, 

 Southern Sweden, Caucasus, Russia, Western Asia. In Switzerland 

 only in Canton Bile. 



A very ornamental plant for the borders of shrubberies and 

 shady places in gardens ; and it looks particularly well with large 

 ferns in a rockery. 



Anemone trifolia L. 



Radical leaves usually wanting at time of flowering. Involucral 

 bracts 3, petioled, with simple, broadly lanceolate and regularly 

 serrated segments. Flowers solitary. Sepals usually 6, oblong, 

 glabrous beneath, white, but very rarely blue (var. ccerulescens 

 Hausm.). 



Bushy places and woods up to about 5500 feet. June, July. 



Distribution. — Southern Tyrol to Carinthia, where it is often 

 abundant. Woods, pastures, and chestnut-groves in Liguria, at 

 about 2000 feet. According to Moggridge it replaces A. nemorosa 

 along the coast from San Remo to Genoa, while the Wood Anemone 

 usually grows higher among the mountains {Flora of Mentone, etc.). 



Anemone alpina L. 



Rootstock thick, and extending into a long, fibrous tap-root. 

 Stem 6-18 inches high. Root-leaves temate, bipinnatifid, with 



