RANUNCULACEiE S3 



pistrihution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps ; Pyrenees, 

 Riesengebirge, Alsace-Lorraine, North Germany, Carpathians, 

 Scandinavia, Siberia. In Norway it reaches the limit of eternal 

 snow. 



Anemone Halleri All. 



Stem taller than the last. Plant villous, with white, shining 

 glandular hairs. Leaves pinnate, with segments in 2-3 pairs, 

 pinnatifid, the lobes 2-3 cleft ; ultimate segments entire or 3-cleft. 

 Bracts of involucre sessile, linear-lanceolate, very hairy. Flowers 

 usually pale violet, rarely white or rose-coloured, large, erect, soUtary. 

 Sepals 6, elliptic, silky outside. Carpels with long plumose beard. 



Southern slopes and dry pastures at about 5000 feet, though 

 occasionally descending lower. It usually blooms in May and June. 



Distribution.- — Carpathians ; Eastern Alps, Switzerland (only 

 in Valais), Savoy, Dauphiny, Provence, Itahan Alps, Poland, 

 Southern Bohemia. 



Anemone Pulsatilla L. Pasque-flower. (Plate V.) 



A smaller plant than the last. Leaves deeply cut into linear 



segments, and the whole plant very hairy. Flowers large, solitary, 



erect or finally drooping, purple. Carpels with a long plumose 



beard. A very acrid plant with medicinal properties.. 



Dry, stony, sunny places, especially on chalk and limestone. 



It frequents the lower hills rather than the mountains. March to 



May. 



Distribution. — Almost all Europe ; Siberia. In Britain confined 



to a few chalk hiUs in the south and east of England. Local in 



Switzerland. 



Anemone montana Hoppe. 



Plant 6-12 inches high, covered at first with silky hairs, later 

 almost glabrous. Leaves with linear segments. Petiole broadened 

 into a sheath at the base. Flowers solitary, dark violet, drooping, 

 very silky outside ; bell-shaped at first, star-shaped later, darker 

 in colour and smaller than those of A. Pulsatilla. Rarely the 

 flowers are blue, rose or whitish. 



Sunny, stony places on the hills and lower Alps up to about 

 6500 feet — ^local. March and April. Autumn flowering specimens 

 were found by the author near Sierre in the Rhone valley in 191 1. 



Distribution. — Switzerland, Dauphiny, Auvergne, S. Tyrol and 

 Transylvania. 



Adonis L. Pheasant's Eye. 



Characters those of Ranunculus, except that the petals have 

 no nectary, though often deeply coloured at the base, and the 

 seed is suspended and not 6rect, in the carpel. Leaves with very 

 narrow segments. 



