Ranunculacce—e«lnuemone. 9 
11. A. nemordsa. Wood Anemone.—This familiar inhabi- 
tant of our copses and woods should be introduced into shrub- 
beries and parks where it does not exist, being one of the hand- 
Fig. 6. Anemone elegans, (} nat. size.) Tig. 7, Anemone Pulsatilla. (4 nat. size.) 
somest of our native Spring flowers. Sepals 5, glabrous, white 
or tinged with purple. . 
12. A. Apennina.—Sepals numerous, bright azure blue. 
Leaves and involucre ternate. April. This is naturalised in 
some parts of Britain. A. bldnda is a near ally of this. 
13. A. palmata.—A yellow-flowered species with reniform 
obtusely lobed leaves and numerous narrow sepals. It grows 
about 9 inches high, and is a very distinct and beautiful plant. 
A native of the South of Europe, flowering in May. There is 
a white and also a double variety of this species. 
4, ADONIS. 
A small genus of annual and perennial plants with compound 
leaves very finely divided into thread-like segments. Flowers 
yellow orred. Sepals 5 to 8, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5 to 
16, destitute of glands. Carpels numerous, with 1 pendulous 
seed in each. The species are limited to the temperate zone 
