ANEMONE. 



confefs a predileftion for the fingle kinds, equally beautiful 

 and various in colour, which may be raifed abundantly from 

 feed in any airy and funny fpot, and require but little trou- 

 ble in tranfplantation every fourth or fifth year. They 

 flower moft in the winter or fpring. The hawt vary in 

 breadth. The natural colour of thejio-wer, which is cup- 

 Ihaped, and full two inches broad, is a light purpli(h-blue, 

 as reprefented in Dr. Sibthorp's drawing, and as we have 

 gathered it in the groves and graflplats of the Roman 

 villas. The feeds are covered with long, foft, tenacious 

 down, concerning the effeft of which an amufing ftory is 

 told by Tournefort and Miller. A lawyer in the fouth of 

 France ftole thefe feeds from a covetous amateur, by order- 

 ing his page to drop, as if by accident, the filk train of his 

 robe, when they paffed over the bed of feeding Anemonies, 

 and thus obtained a plentiful fupply. 



13. A. pufilla. Dwarf Anemone. De Cand. n. 12. — 

 Leaves thrice ternate, pinnatifid, many-cleft, witli linear 

 pointed fegmcnts. Involucrum feffile ; cut at the fummit. 

 Petals fix, oblong, diftant. — Gathered in Cyprus by La- 

 billardiere. Nearly akin to the laft, and perhaps a variety. 

 Root tuberous, the fize of a filberd. Leaves fmooth, 

 ftalked, with narrow linear fegments. Flo'wer-Jlalk a finger's 

 length, flender, downy, ereft. Involucrum of three leaves, 

 acutely cut and toothed at the apex. Partial Jlalk either 

 the length of the involucrum, or twice or thrice as long. 

 Flotuer ereft, pale purple. Petals fix, rarely but four 

 or five, oblong, bluntifh, diftant and fpreading, about four 

 times the length of \.\\ijlamens. Seeds woolly, coUefted into 

 an oval-oblong head. De Cand. 



14. A. pavonina. Peacock Garden Anemone. La- 

 marck Did. v. I. 166. De Cand. n. 13. " Fl. Franc. 

 V. 5. 634." Brot. Lufit. v. 2. 363, not 263. (A. hor- 

 tenfis latifolia, pleno flore, et flore coccineo ; Cluf. Hift. 

 V. I. 261, 262, with three figures. A. maxima chal- 

 cedonica polyanthos ; ■ Ger. Em. 375. Lob. Ic. 278. 

 A. ftellata, geranii aut aconiti folio, duplicate flore 

 purpureo ; Cupan. Panph. v. i. t. 121. ed. 2. t. 22.) — 

 Leaves ternate or deeply three-lobed ; leaflets or fegments 

 wedge-fhaped, cut and toothed. Involucrum ferfile, its 

 leaves oblong, entire or flightly cut. Petals ten or twelve, 

 lanceolate, very acute. — Found in vineyards in Navarre, 

 alfo in the fouth of France, and probably in the Levant. 

 De Candolle. Differs from A. coronarla in its lefs divided 

 leaves, and efpecially thofe of the involucrum, which are 

 five or fix, elliptic-lanceolate, rough-edged, moft of them 

 quite entire, one or tv/o only partially notched. The 

 narrow and acute petals are alfo peculiar. We feel con- 

 vinced with Lamarck and De Candolle that this muft be a 

 diftinft fpecies, tliough confounded by Linnaeus and others 

 with the more frequent A. coronarla. We have not fouglit 

 out its varieties among the double Anemonies, but there is 

 a fcarlet one not uncommon. The French know fome of 

 thefe varieties by the names of Oeil de paon, Candiote, &c. 

 If this be not diftinft, it fhould feem to belong to the fol- 

 lowing rather than to any other. 



15. A. horlenfis. Starry Garden Anemone. Linn. Sp, 

 PI. 761. WiUd. n. II. Ait. n. 8. Curt. Mag. t. 123. 

 Sm. Fl. Gric. Sibth. t. 515, unpubl. (A. hortenfis lati- 

 folia fimplici flore, n. 3 — 18 ; Cluf. Hift. v. i. 249—254. 

 A. prima ; Dod. Pempt. 434. A. fecunda ; Camer. Epit. 

 387. A. tuberofa, bulbocaftani radice ; Lob. Ic. 279. 

 Ger. Em. 375. f. 5. A. n. 1152 ; Hall. Hift. v. 2. 64. A. 

 ftellata ; Lamarck Dift. v. i. 166. Brot, Lufit. v. 2. 363. 

 Savi Etrufc. v. 2. 122. De Cand. n. 14. " Fl. Franc, v. 5. 

 ^34'" ) — Leaves ternate ; leaflets wedge-ftiaped, rough- 



edge, three-cleft, cut. Involucnim fefTile ; its leaves lan- 

 ceolate, undivided or partly cut. Petals ten or twelve, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obtufe. — Found on banks, ruins, or 

 buftiy wafte ground, in the fouth of Europe ; very com- 

 monly in Italy and Greece, flowering in the early fpring ; 

 lefs abundantly in the fouth of France, and Switzerland. 

 Clufius obferved this fpecies near Mentz. It has been 

 known in gardens as long as the coronarla, but being infe- 

 rior in beauty and variety, has given place to that popular 

 fpecies. We cannot follow Lamarck in its fpecific appel- 

 lation, becaufe there is nO end of changing names for the 

 better ; unlefs all leading botanifts would concur in a gene- 

 ral reform ; and even in that cafe, pofitively erroneous names 

 only fhould be altered. This pretty fpecies has an oblong 

 tuberous 7-00/, producing many leaves zndjlems. The latter 

 are ternate, on long ftalks ; their leaflets coriaceous, ftrongly 

 veined, either cut half way down into three broad lobes, or 

 divided nearly to the bafe, into three fubdivided narrow 

 ones ; their legments all acute ; their edges remarkably 

 rough, though both furfaces are ufually, if not always, 

 fmooth and naked. Involucral leaves three, an inch long, 

 filky, rough-edged ; one of them in general flightly notched 

 at the end. Partial Jlalk long, filky, efpecially near the 

 top. Flotuer fcarcely above an inch wide, of a delicate 

 rofe-colour, or full carnation ; the petals filky at the back, 

 veiny, often emarginate. The rough.€dged leaves and invo- 

 lucrum are charafteriftic of this fpecies, but the InvoltKrum 

 of pavonina, (we have not examined its leaves,) has the fame 

 character, which coronarla has not. We are ftrongly per- 

 fuaded of pavonina being a variety of hortenjis, and that the 

 acutenefs or bluntnefs of the petals is variable. 



16. A. palmata. Cyclamen-leaved Anemone. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 758. De Cand. n. 15, WiUd. n. 12. Ait. n. 9. 

 Andr. Repof. t. 172. Vahl Symb. v. 3. 73. Desfont. 

 Atlant. v. I. 432. (A. hortenfis latifoha, fimplici flavo 

 flore ; Cluf. Hift. v. i. 248. Morif. feft. 4. t. 25. f. 3. 

 A. latifolia Clufii ; Lob. Ic. 279. Ger. Em. 376. A. 

 latifoha flava ; Barrel. let. 792.) — Leaves fimple, heart- 

 ftiaped, rounded, with three or five blunt, fharply-toothed 

 lobes, Involucrum feflile ; its leaves in three linear, acut^ 

 hairy lobes, Petals ten or twelve, oblong, obtufe. — Native 

 of rather moift wafte ground, in Portugal, Spain, the fouth 

 of France, and the north of Barbary, flowering early in 

 fpring. Rarely cultivated with us, except in curious gar- 

 dens, though the brilliant golden Jlowers are very hand- 

 fome. The leaves, notwithftanding Mr, Andrews's doubts, 

 are truly palmate, differing from the laft in being fimple, 

 and, though more or lefs hairy, not rough at the edges as 

 in that fpecies. They are coriaceous, ftrongly veined ; 

 often purple beneath. The Involucral ones are three, almoft 

 uniform, hairy or filky, an inch long, narrow, each divided 

 about half way into three nearly equal, fometimes notched, 

 linear lobes ; the edges apparently fringed, but not rough. 

 Stalk above the Involucrum rather long, filky. Floivers an 

 inch and a half or two inches broad. Petals linear-obovate; 

 the fix outer ones remarkably hairy externally, and fo dif- 

 pofed in Linnjeus's only fpecimen, that he took them for 

 the fame kind of clofe calyx as occurs in Hepatlca, only 

 with a double number of fegments. Thus he was led to 

 place A. palmata in his firft feftion, Hepaticde, and this will 

 folve Vahl's difficulty, recorded in his Symbols above cited. 

 But it will not account for this author's extraordinary quo- 

 tation of Linnceus's words, which are " calyx fexpartllus, 

 Integerrlmus, vlllofus, coloratus, nee a Jlore remotus. Vahl 

 cites this pafTage, " calyx hexaphyllus, coloratus, a Jlore 

 remotus.'^ The fuppofed double variety of the prefent fpe- 

 cies, 



