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ers either ‘do not open, or close up again. So says Lou- 
don. It is a handsome trailing weed of England, and 
is found in some parts of this country. 
Anagallis grandiflora carnea, A. lilacea and A. fruti- 
cosa, are pretty annuals. 
ANCHUSA.—Boe oss. 
[Derived from the Greek, meaning paint for the skin; one of the species hav- 
ing been used in early times to stain the skin.] 
Anchiisa [talica.—Italian Bugloss.—Is a tall-growing 
hardy perennial, with coarse, rough leaves, but bearing a 
multitude of small brilliant blue flowers all the season. 
There is another species with parti-colored red and purple 
flowers ; and still another with red flowers. All the species 
are tall-growing plants, from two to three feet high. 
Easy to cultivate and a hardy, desirable only in 
large collections. 
ANEMONE,—Wwp-FLower. 
[From the Greek, anemos, wind ; some say because the flower opens only 
when the wind blows; others, because it grows in situations much exposed to 
wind.} 
“Youth, like a thin Anemone displays 
His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.” 
This poetical allusion is in reference to the fragility of 
the Anemone, which applies to the Wood Anemone of 
Europe and this country, and not to A. coronaria, 2 
florist’s flower, which has already been described under 
the head of bulbous roots. 
Aneméne Pulsatilla, Pasque Flower, is an old-fashioned 
English perennial border-flower, easily cultivated, and 
descriped by Gerade, the herbalist, in his book written 
two hundred and fifty years ago, thus:—“It hath many 
