DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 125 
small leaves, finely cut or jagged, like those of carrots, 
among which rise up naked stalkes roughf, hairie, where- 
upon doe grow beautiful floures, bell-fashion, of a bright 
delaied purple color; in the bottom whereof groweth a 
* tuft of yellow thrumbs, and in the middle of the thrumbs 
it thrusteth forth a small purple pointell, When the 
whole flower is passed, there succeedeth an head or knob, 
compact of many gray hairy lockes, and in the solid part 
of the knob lieth the seed, flat and hairy,—every seed 
having his own small haire hanging at it. The root is 
thicke and knobby, of a finger long, running right down, 
and therefore not unlike those of the Anemone, which it 
doth in all its other parts very notably resemble, and 
whereof no doubt this is a kind.” 
A. nemorésa, or Wood Anemone, is one of our earliest 
flowers in spring, appearing in April, and continuing 
through May; found in company with violets and other 
vernal flowers, in woods and pastures, and by the side of 
walls and fences. It grows in spreading clusters, sending 
up its stem, bearing three leaves, which is crowned with 
one single white flower, the external part of which is of 
a reddish-purple. It requires care in transplanting and to 
be set in a shady and moist place. The Rue-leaved Ane- 
mone is placed under Thalictrum. 
A. horténsis, or Garden Anemone, is the species from 
which all the fine varieties of the florist’s flowers origin- 
ated. 
‘See! yon Anemones their leaves unfold, 
With rubies flaming, and with living gold.” 
Very little attention has been paid in this section of 
the country, to the cultivation of this most beautiful 
flower, from the fact, probably, that it will not stand our 
winters, unless planted in a frame, or othewise protected. 
With this precaution, and some little attention, it will 
