ANEMONE. 



cies, Cluf. Hilt. V. !. 249. f. I, and Ger. Em. 376. f. 7, 

 which De CaadoUe marks with doubt, and has never feen, is 

 reprefented with the many-knobbed root of a Ranunculus, to 

 which genus we fhould not be furprifed if it proved to 

 belong. 



17, A., decapetala. Little Three-leaved Anemone. Ar- 

 duin. Spec. 2. 27. t. 12. Linn. Mant. 79. De Cand. n. 16. 

 Willd. n. 17. Lamarck Dift. v. I. 167. (" A. Irilobata ; 

 JufT. Ann. du Muf. v. 3. 247. t. 2I. f. 3.") — Leaves ter- 

 nate ; leaflets rounded, unequally three-lobed and toothed. 

 Involucral leaves feffde, twice three-cleft, with linear kg- 



ments. Petals ten or twelve, elUptic-lanceolate, obtufe 



Sent by Father Panegai to profeffor Arduino, from Brafil, 

 where Commerfon alfo met \vith this curious little plant ; as 

 did Dombey and Nee in Peru and Chili. The root is ovate 

 and tuberous, about the fize of a filberd. Leaves fmaller 

 than the laft, and perfeAly ternate, obfcurely dotted, be- 

 fprinkled with fhort hairs, but not rough-edged ; their 

 teeth unequal, bluntifh, often callous-pointed. Stalk two 

 or three inches high, filky at the top, with an involucrum 

 about the middle, totally unlike the leaves, being doubly, 

 but imperfe£lly, thr^e-cleft, with linear fegments, callous 

 at the tips. Floiuer fcarcely half the fize of A. hortenfis, 

 which it refembles in form. The petals appear to be white ; 

 filky and purplifh at the back. 



18. h.. parviflora. Small-flowered American Anemone. 

 Michaux Boreal. -Amer. v. i. 319. De Cand. n. 17. (" A. 

 cuneifolia ; Jufl". Ann. du Muf. v. 3. 248. t. 21. f. I." 

 Purfl\ 386.) — Leaves ternate; leaflets wedge-ftiaped ; 

 abrupt and crenate at the extremity. Involucral leaves fef- 

 file, deeply three-cleft, fomewhat notched. Petals fix, 

 oval-oblong. — Native of banks of rivulets at Hudfon's bay, 

 Labrador, and Newfoundland, flowering from March to 

 May. Akin to the two laft. Radical lea-oes fmooth and 

 naked ; involucral ones with oblong fegments. Stalk very 

 lono-. Flowers, according to Purih, white, the i:ze of A. 

 nemorofa. Seeds woolly, pointed, forming a globular head. 

 He Candolle. 



19. A. caroUn'tana. Little Carolina Anemone. Walt. 

 Carol. 157. De Cand. n. 18. ^A. tenella; Purfh n. 4.) 

 — " Leaves ternate ; leaflets deeply three-cleft, cut, fiiarply 

 toothed. Involucral leaves three-cleft, notched. Petals 

 ten or tv/elve, linear." — Gathered in Carolina, by the late 

 Mr. Walter ; on the banks of the Miflburi, by governor 

 Lewis ; flowering in May. Root fmall, tuberous. Herb 

 tender and delicate. Leaflets fome with only toothed, and 

 others with deeply three-cleft, jagged, and fliarply toothed, 

 labes- Stalk fingle-flovvered. In-oolucrum of three leaves, 

 -with jagged fegments. Partial Jlalk long. PetaL fmall, 

 purplifti, externally downy. Seeds pointed, woolly. The 

 fourth Ranunculus, Pluk. Almag. 310, cited doubtingly by 

 De Candolle, who has omitted the word procerus in tran- 

 fcription,feems to us at befl; very uncertain, and particularly 

 fo on account of that very word. 



20. A. triternata. Fine-leaved Brafil Anemone. Vahl 

 Symb. v. 3. 74. t. 65. De Cand. n. 19. Willd. n. 18. 

 Lamarck f. 3. (" A. fumariaef olia ; Juff. Ann. du Muf. 

 V. 3. 247. t. 20. f. 2.") — Leaves thrice ternate; leaflets 

 cut ; fegments lanceolate, acute. Involucral leaves in many 

 fetaceous divifions. Petals ten or twelve, oblong, obtufe. 

 Fruit cylindrical. — Gathered by Commerfon at Monte 

 Video. It is faid to have been alfo found in Peru, by Leu- 

 baz ; flowering in November. The root andjlo'uiers bear a 

 great refemblance to A. decapetala ; but the lea-ves are totally 

 different, being cut into innumerable, fine, divaricated feg- 

 ments, quite fmooth, entire at the edges, and not at ajl 

 loothed or ferrated. The in-volucrum too is fcme\what dif- 



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ferent, each of its three leaves being firft dis-ided half wav 

 down, into three parts, and thofe fubdivided into man'y 

 flender, tapering fegments. The feeds arc numerous, taper- 

 ing, beaked, verj- hairy, clofely imbricated in a cyUndrical, 

 fomewhat elliptical, head, an inch long. 



21. A. iiflora. Two-flowered Oriental Anemone. De 

 Cand. n. 20. — " Leaves ternate ; leaflets deeply divided into 

 hnear, obtufe, partly cut, lobes. Involucral leaves fefiile, 

 in many deep fegments. Partial flower-ftalks in pairs, one 

 of them with a partial involucrum." — Gathered by Michaux 

 in the Levant. Of this De Candolle defcribes two va- 

 rieties. 



a, with two leaves in the general, and two in the partial, 

 involucrum. Root an oblong tuier, tapering upwards, 

 fibrous below. Leaves fmooth, on long ftalks, ternate ; 

 their leajlets in deep, linear, fomewhat notched, obtufe, 

 thickifli lobes. Common f.o-wer-Jlalk round, the length of 

 the footfl;alks, about four inches. Involucrum of two feflUe 

 leaves, in numerous deep divifions, refembling the radical 

 foliage. Partial ftalks two, Cngle-flowered, clofely downy ; 

 one naked ; the other fumiflied, near the bafe, with a two- 

 leaved partial involucrum, like the general one. Floiutn 

 rather drooping, yellow, with five petals, which are oval- 

 oblong, obtufe, externally downy, rather larger than in A. ' 

 ranunculoidds- Stamens few in the flower, with a two-fold 

 involucrum ; num.erous in the other. Germms, on the con- 

 trary, many in the former, few in the latter. 

 B, with three leaves in the only involucrum. 

 Fcotjlalks, as well ^% Jlower-Jlalks , much fliorter. Flowers 

 on much longer partial ftalks, white with a tinge of purple. 

 General involucrum of three leaves. Petals blunter, and 

 rather more villous, than in a. Seeds woolly, as in A. bal- 

 denfis. Pofllbly a diftinft fpecies. 



** Involucral leaies Jlalkcd. Root-Jlock tuberous, fometvhat 

 ovate, 



22. A.. .apenmna. Blue Mountain Anemone. Linn. Sp.- 

 PI. 762. De Cand. n. 21. Willd. n. 24. Fl. Brit. n. 3. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1062. Prodr. Fl. Graec. Sibth. n. 1250. 

 Curt. Lond. fafc. 6. t. 35. (A. geranifolia ; fiauh. 

 Hift. v. 3. 405. Ger. Em. 377. Lob. Ic. 280. A. 

 hortenfis tenuifolia, fimplici flore ; Cluf. Hift. v. 1. 254. 

 Ranunculus nemorofus, flore caeruleo, duplex, apennini 

 montis ; Mentz. PugiU. t. 8.) — Leaves twice ternate, pin- 

 natifid, fliarply notched. Involucj'al ones ftalked, ternate, 

 pinnatifid and cut. Petals twelve to fourteen, oblong, ob- 

 tufe. — Native of groves and thickets in fome parts of Eng- 

 land, but rare, as near as Wimbleton, Luton-hoe, and Berk- 

 hamftead. Fl. Brit. In Italy it occupies the place of A. 

 nemorofa in the more northern parts of Europe, and is 

 equally plentiful, flowering in March and April. Dr. Sib- 

 thorp noticed it in the Morea ; Dr. Clarke on the banks of 

 the Simois ; and the baron Marl'chall von Bieberftein in the 

 Iberian Caucafus. The root is fmaller than a filberd, bear- 

 ing one or two leaves, each on a zigzzg J ootjlalk, very flen- 

 der at the bafe. The leaves much refemble Geranium rober- 

 tianum ; tliofe of the involucrum are fimilar, but lefs divided, 

 with narrower fegments. Stalk folitary, from four to nine 

 inches liij^ : f Iky above the involucrum. Flower of a fine 

 blue, with ^'^ 'Jlamens znd pifii Is, very beautiful, faid to be 

 occafionally white. 



23. A. citrulea. Small Blue Anemone. De Cpd. 



n. 22. — "Leaves Involucral ones on (hort ftalks, triply 



pinnate, cut and toothed. Petals four or five, oval." — 

 Gathered bv Mr. Patrin, near Zmeof in Siberia, flowering 

 in the earlv'fpring. The root and radical leaves are want- 

 ing in the fpecimens feen by De CandoUe. This fpecies 

 .irrccs ill dclcription with the lail, but vhe partial J ali is 



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