8 Ranunculacce—lucmone. 
4, A. horténsis, syn. A. stellata.—To this species belong the 
varieties called Star Anemones. In this the sepals are more 
distinctly spreading, and the wild form is distinguished by 
having the centre or eye of the flower ofa distinct colour. The 
flowers are usually of a bright red with a white eye; but the 
cultivated forms are numerous, and it is supposed that some 
are hybrids of this and the preceding. In the typical plant, 
too, the leaves are more coriaceous, with broader lobes than in 
the foregoing. From the South of Europe, and, like the last, 
a valuable Spring-flowering plant. 
5. A. falgens.—This is probably no other than a variety of 
the last, though sufficiently distinct to be kept separate here. 
It has larger deep crimson flowers with obovate sepals. A. 
pavonina is an abnormal variety of the same plant, in which 
the sepals are very narrow and numerous, of a bright scarlet 
or rosy pink colour. A native of the South of Europe, blooming 
in April and May. 
6. A. Japénica.—A very beautiful plant, as the name de- 
notes, from Japan, and much taller than any of the preceding 
species. It grows from 2 to 3 feet high, with simple stems 
and large bluntly-lobed leaves. The flowers are large, rose or 
white, produced towards the end of Summer. A very desirable 
and effective species. The plant called Honorine Jawbert is a 
form of this. 
7. A. élegans (fig. 6), syn. A. hybrida.—Differing from the 
preceding in its greater stature, larger leaves, and less brightly 
coloured flowers. Also an Autumn-flowering plant. Possibly 
the result of a cross between No. 6 and the Himalayan A. 
vitifoliu, or simply a variety of Japénica. 
8. A. Pulsatilla (fig. 7). Pasque-flower.—A very pretty in- 
digenous species with dull purple flowers and long feathery 
styles. Under cultivation it grows about a foot high, with 
flowers 2 inches in diameter, sepals usually 6, outer stamens 
reduced to glands. May. 
9. A. sylvéstris—A beautiful pure white-flowered species 
from Central Europe and Siberia. It has something the habit 
of No. 6, but is not more than half its size. The flowers are 
over an inch in diameter, and very profuse in a shady habitat. 
10. A. ranwnculoides.—Leaves ternately compound. Sepals 
5, bright yellow, hairy outside. Styles not bearded. A hand- 
some plant, allied to the common Wood Anemone. South of 
Europe. April. 
