ANEMONE. 



• the 'woolucrum, inftead of being four times longer : thirdly, 

 in the flower being whitifh, or fulphur-<:oloured, not pur- 

 ple ;"€ourthly, in the total want oi glands, or abortive^aw^n/, 

 at leaft in the fpecimen feen by profeffbr De CandoUe ; 

 which are \tTj abundant in the preceding ipecies. 



S. A. Nuttalliana. Louifiana Anemone. De Cand. n. 7. 

 — Leaves ternate, palmate, many-cleft ; fcgments linear, 

 elongated. Involucrum in numerous linear diviiions. Flower 

 ereft. Petals fix, ftraight, converging. — Gathered in Lou- 

 ifiana, by Mr. Nuttall. The habit refembles J. Pulfatilla, 

 but the leaves are ternate, not pinnate. Foot/talks three 

 inches long, covered with clofe hairs. Flotiier-Jlalk from fix 

 to twelve inches high ; fometimes fmooth. Involucrum \tT\ 

 hairy at the bafe. Partial Jlalk various in length. Flower 

 purpHfh. Petals acute, externally hairy, eight or ten lines 

 long. Fruit like Pulfatilla. De Cand. 



Seft. 2. Preonanthus. Eluh. Phytoph. 95. 



Seeds terminating in long bearded tails. Involucral leaves 

 ternate, ftalked, pinnate, with deeply ferrated, notched lobes. 

 Petals five or fix. No glands, or abortive ftamens. Radical 

 leaves ternate ; their divifions pinnate, doubly compound, 

 cut and ferrated. Flowers white or yellowith. 



9. A. alpina. Alpine Anemone. Linn. Sp. PI. 760. 

 De Cand. n. 8. Willd. n. 8, &. Ait. n. 6. Ehrh. Phy- 

 toph. 95. Crantz Auftr. fafc. 2. 105. t. 3. f. 2. Villars 

 Dauph. V. 3. 726. (A. n. 1 149; Hall. Hift. v. 2. 62. A. 

 alpina alba major; Bauh. Pin. 176. Prodr. 94. Pulfatilla 

 prima alpina ; Dalech. Hift. 850.) 



/S. Flower white, as in «, but much fmaller. (A. alpina; 

 Jacq. Auftr. t. 85. Willd. n. 8, a. A. fylveftris altera ; 

 Cluf. Hift. V. I. 245. Pulfatilla alba ; Lob. Ic. 282. 

 Dalech. Hift. 849. P. flore albo ; Ger. Em. 386.) 



7. Fl. large, yellow. (A. apii foHa ; Jacq. Mifc. v. 2. 

 47. t. 4. Willd. n. 9. A. fulphurea ; Linn. Mant. 78. 

 A. myrrhidifoHa B ; Villars Dauph. v. 3. 727, from the 

 author. A. n. 1 149, ; Hall. Hift. v. 2. 63. Pulfatilla 

 lutea ; Camer. Epit. 393. P. tertia ; Dalech. Hift. 851, 

 bad.) 



Leaves ternate, pinnate, with pinnatifid, decurrent, fer- 

 rated lobes. Involucral ones fimilar. Petals fix, fpreading. 

 — Native of paftures and rocky declivities in moft alpine 

 parts of the middle of Europe, Switzerland, the Pyrenees, 

 the fouth of France, Auftria, Carinthia, &c. ; flowering in 

 fummer. The conformity of ftrufture between the involu- 

 crum and the radical foliage, clearly afcertains this fpecies. 

 We readily concur with Haller and De CandoUe, that the 

 difference of colour between the yellow, lemon-coloured, or 

 ■Khitt flowers, or of fize between the large- white and the 

 fmall, indicate mere varieties. But we fcarcely fee any rea- 

 fon to mark the more or lefs hairy leaves as permanent varie- 

 ties ; the former being caufed by more dry and expofed 

 ftations of the fame plant. The petals are always more or 

 lefs pale, purplifti, and hairy, at the back. The flowering 

 plant is from two to twelve inches high. \Vhen in feed its 

 dimenfions are every way doubled. A Angular monftrofity 

 of variety B, fent us by the late Mr. Davall, has one of its 

 petals flipped down, if we may fo exprefs it, into the invo- 

 lucrum, and greatly enlarged. This, as M. De CandoDe 

 juftly obferves, proves an analogy between the petals, (his 

 calyx,) znd the involucrum ; but it will not prove them to 

 have more affinity than the petals and actual leaves of a 

 Tulip, which we have feveral times feen running into each 

 other, or half and half of the perfe£l nature of each. 



Seft. 3. Pulfatilloides. De CandoUe. 



Seeds very hairy. Petals from feven to twenty, oblong. 

 Involucrum of two or three leaves, fomewhat Iheatliing at 



their bafe ; cut and toothed upwards. Leaves twice ternate, 



cut. 



10. A. capenjis. Broad-leaved Cape Anemone. Lamarck 

 Dia V. I 164 De Cand. n. 9. (Atragene capenfis ; Linn, 

 op. PI. 764. WiUd. Sp. PI. V. 2. 1286. Ait. Hort. Kow. 

 V. 3. 342. Andr. Repof. t. 9. Curt. Mag. t. 716. Pul- 

 fatilla fohis trifidis, dentatis, flore incamata, pleno ; Bum. 

 Afric. 148. t. 52.)— Leaves twice-temate, rigid, fmooth; 



fegments wedge-fhaped, fliarply toothed Native of ftony 



acclivities of mountains, at the Cape of Good Hope, flower- 

 ing from Oftober to March. It is faid to have been firft 

 cultivated in England, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, in 

 1795. This plant is fomewhat caulefcent, but the leaves 

 are crowded about the lower part, almoft clofe to the woody 

 root. Their texture is extremely firm ; their fegments 

 varying greatly in fize, breadth, and fliape ; the young ones 

 villous. Flowers one or two from each involucrum, which 

 refembles the leaves, but is fmaUer, with a dilated inflated 

 ftalk. The partial flower flalis are long and downy. Petals 

 thirteen to eighteen, linear -oblong, above an inch in lengtli, 

 pink, or pale bluih-coloured, (preading, very handfome. 

 Germens extremely hairy, ovate, each with a recurved ftyle. 



1 1 , A. tenuifolia. Fine-leaved Cape Anemone. De Cand. 

 n. 10. (Atragene tenuifolia ; Linn. Suppl. 270. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 2. 1286. Thunb. Prodr. 94. A. tenuis ; Thunb. 

 Jap. 239, note.) — Leaves thrice-ternate, rigid, fmooth; 

 leaflets pinnatifid, with linear-tlireadfliaped, acute, entire 

 lobes. — Found by Thunberg at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The leaves are more compound, and more finely divided 

 than thofe of the preceding fpecies ; the plant is defcribed 

 as more caulefcent, and the flowers but half as large, with 

 only from feven to nine petals. We have feen no authentic 

 fpecimens, but are not without a fufpicion that Linnxus 

 confounded this with the laft. 



Seft. 4. Anemonanthea. De Cand. 



Seeds nearly ovate, hooked with the permanent ftyle, 

 either very hairy or ftiaggy, or in fome inftances nearly 

 fmooth. Partial flower-ftalks fohtary in each involucrum, 

 or very rarely two together, always lingle-flowered and 

 naked. Petals from five to fifteen. 



* Involucral leaves feffde. Rootfloch tuhcrous, fomewhat 

 ovate, 



12. A. coroiiaria. Poppy Garden Anemone. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 760. DeCand. n. II. Willd. n. 10. Ait. n. 7. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 841. Sm. Fl. Grasc. Sibth. t. 514, unpubl. 

 Lamarck f. i. (Anemone ; Camer. Epit. 386. A. hor- 

 tenfis tenuifoha, fimplici flore, n. 2 — 20 ; Cluf. Hift. v. i. 

 255 — 260 ; alfo pleno flore ; ibid. 263. A. tuberofa radice, 

 et coccinea multiplex ; Lob. Ic. 277. Ger. Em. 374 ; fee 

 alfo feveral in his fubfequent pages. ) — Leaves twice ternate, 

 pinnatifid ; fegments linear -wedgelhaped, fmooth-edged, 

 fliarply cut. Involucrum feflile, many-cleft. Petals fix, 

 oval, concave, converging. — Native of dry, as weU as 

 rather moift, paftures, in the fouth of France, Italy, and 

 the Levant, flowering in the early fpring. Very common 

 on dry hillocks in Greece, according to Dr. Sibthorp, who 

 concurred with former botanifts in thinking it the avs^vn 

 iix'.fu, of Diofcorides ; and the learned Sprengel takes the 

 avspwc of Hippocrates to be the fame plant. This fpecies, 

 however, bears the fame name in modern Greek, ■za'zapa>a, 

 as the Field Poppy, Papaver Rkaas ; nor is the hiftory of 

 thefe two flowers,' however different, free from ambiguity. 

 A. coronaria has been the delight of florifts ever fince the 

 time of Gerarde, and its numerous double varieties, dif- 

 playing every beauty and fplendour of colour, are among 

 the raoft rare and admired decoratioos of a parterre. We 



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