ANEMONE. 



the leaflets are more elongated and cut, and the ftalks of 

 the Imwlucrum much fliorter. The petals are broader, and 

 of a full yellow. Floiuers often two together, one of which, 

 according to De CandoUe, is fometimes deficient in pijllls. 

 The partial Jlalk appears to droop as the fruit ripens. The 

 germens are nearly orbicular, comprefTed, downy, the Jlyle of 

 each forming a ftrong incurved beak. There is faid to be a 

 violet -coloured variety found on the Pyrenees. 



^1. A. reflexa. Reflexed Anemone. Stephen, in Willd. 

 n. 25. De Cand. n. 30. — " Leaves ternate ; leaflets fome- 

 what three-cleft, toothed at the extremity. Involucral 

 ones fimilar, ftalked. Petals five or fix, linear, obtufe, re- 

 flexed." — Native of Siberia. Stali flightly downy at the 

 top, flender, a palm in height. Involucral leaves Imooth, 

 on downy ftalks ; their leajlets acute, tapering at each end. 

 Partial Jlalk folitary, (horter than the involucrum while in 

 flower, erect, flightly hairy. Flower yellow, one-third the 

 fize of the laft. Stamens very numerous, fliorter than the 

 petals. De CandoUe, IV'tlld. 



**** Involucral leaves Jlalked. Root of lufted fibres. 



32. A. fylvejlris. Snow-drop Anemone. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 761. De Cand. n. 31. Willd. n. 15. Ait. n. 12. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 54. Bull. Fr. t. 59. (A. fylveftris prima ; 

 Cluf. Hill. 244. A. tertia ; Matth. Valgr. v. i. 565. 

 Lob. Ic. 280. Camer. Epit. 388. Dalech. Hift. 843. 

 A. Mattliioh ; Ger. Era. 377. A. n. 1 150; Hall. Hiil. 

 V. 2. 63.) — Leaves ternate or quinate ; leaflets lobed ; 

 deeply notched at the end. Involucral ones fimilar, ftalked. 

 Flower fohtarj'. Petals fix, elliptical. Fruit very woolly. 

 Root fibrous. — Found in woods and hedges in various parts 

 of France, Switzerland, the north of Italy, Germany, Si- 

 beria, &c. but not in England, though a very defirablc 

 hardy perennial in our gardens, flowering in fpring, and 

 fometimes in autumn. The root confifts of long, black, 

 rather ftout fibres, and creeps rather cxtenfively. Leaves 

 large, dark-green, veiny, nearly fmooth, coarfely notched ; 

 their leaflets or lobes wedge-fliaped at the bafe. Floiver- 



Jlalk fifteen or eighteen inches liigh, ereft, downy at the 

 top, bearing about the middle three, rarely four, large, 

 ftalked involucral leaves, whofe leajlets, five or more, are 

 fcarcely diftinft at the bafe. Flower pure white, rarely 

 purplifh, or greenifli, externally downy ; its petals near an 

 inch long, flightly coriaceous. Fruit ovate, the Jeeds co- 

 hering for fome time by their denfe cottony wool, which at 

 length, by fpreading itfelf, wafts them away. We have 

 one Swifs fpecimen with two partial Jlalks, one of which 

 bears a partial involucrum, as in the next feftion. 



33. A. alba. Cotton Anemone. " Juff. Ann. du 

 Muf. V. 3. 248. t. 20. f. I." De Cand. n. 32. — " Leaves 

 ternate or quinate ; leaflets deeply toothed at the end. In- 

 volucral ones funilar, ftalked. Flower folitary. Petals five, 

 obovate. Fruit very woolly. Root fibrous." — Native of 

 Dauria, and the Crimea. Very hke the laft, but rather 

 fmaUer. Petals five, not fix, (horter, rounder, and very 

 obtufe. The feeds are fo woolly, that Demidow aflerts 

 they fupply the place of cotton. De CandoUe. We concur 

 in opinion with our author, that this plant is probably a va- 

 riety, we ftiould fay a very flight one, of the foregoing fpecies. 

 If diftinft, the name of gofypina would have been far pre- 

 ferable to alba. We would alfo fuggeft, that this lail 

 divifion of the fourth feftion of the genus, rather belongs 

 to the fifth, which is fliewn by its habit, and by the cafual 

 variation in the inflorefcence of A. fylvejlris above noticed, 

 of which we have feen more examples. 



Seel. 5. Anemonofpermos of De CandoUe ; not of for- 

 mer authors. 



Seeds rather compreflied, villous, hooked with the per- 



manent ftyle. Petals five, very rarely ten. Umbel fpd. 

 noufly compofed, there being feveral ftalks in one involu- 

 crum ; one of them naked and fingle-flowered ; two or 

 three others beanng each a two-leaved partial involucrum. 

 trom whence fpnngs a fingle-flowered ftalk. 



34. A. virginiana. Virginian Anemone. Linn. Sp PI 

 761. DeCand. n.33. Willd. n. 16. Ait. n. 13. Purfli 

 n. 10. (A. virgimana, tertiz MatthioH fimihs, parvo flore • 

 Herm. Parad. 18, with a plate. )- Leaves ternate, downy \ 

 leaflets three-cleft, pointed, notched, ftiarply ferrated. Ge- 

 neraland partial involucrum fimilar, ftalked. Petals five, 

 ellipticaK"^!,, woods, on the fides of dry fandy hills, from' 

 Canada to Carohna, flowering in May and June. Flower, 

 fmall, greenifli-yeUow. PurJh. The leajlets and their feg- 

 ments are much more pointed, and more fliarply and 

 copioufly ferrated, than in A . fylvejl ris . Whole herb downy, 

 loh to the touch. Seeds very wooUy, in an oval head, on 

 a cylmdrical receptacle. 



35. A. muh'ifida. Magellanic Anemone. " Poiret in 

 Lamarck Suppl. v. i. 364." De Cand. n. 34.— Radical 

 leaves ternate ; leaflets in many deep linear fegments. Ge- 

 neral and partial involucrum funilar, many-cleft, fomewhat 

 ftalked. Petals five to ten, eUiptical, obtufe.— Gathered 

 by Commerfon at the ftraits of Magellan. The root is 

 woody. Radical leaves on long, loofely hairy, ftalks. 

 Common fowerjlall ftout, ereft, taller than the leaves, 

 about fix inches high. General involucrum of three leaves, 

 about two inches long, including their broad hairy ftalks, 

 being rather larger than the radical leaves, but all limilarly 

 divided into linear, or narrow-wedgefliaped, partly three- 

 cleft, loofely hairy, lobes. Partial fower Jlalks three ; the 

 middle one earlieft, four or five inches long, hairy, leaflefs ; 

 the others much fliorter, fpreading, each bearing two 

 fmaller, but otherwife fimilar, involucral leaves ; all fingle- 

 flowered. Flowers about the fize of A. apennina, pale 

 yellow, or buff'-coloured, according to Commerfon ; exter- 

 nally hairy. Seeds hairy, collecled into a globular head. 



M. De CandoUe faw, in the Bankfian herbarium, a 

 plant from Hudfon's bay, which he confidered as a varietv, 

 differing from the Magellanic fpecimens in haring only one 

 Jlower ; or, at moft, two, one of which bore a partial invo- 

 lucrum below the middle. He fuggefts that it may poflibly 

 conftitute a diilinft fpecies. 



36. A. pennfylvanica. Pennfylvanian Anemone. Linn. 

 Mant. 247. De Cand. n. 35. Willd. n. 19. Ait. n. 14. 

 Purfti n. 8. (A. irregularis; Lamarck DiCl. v. 1. 167. 

 DeCand. A. aconitifoha ; Michaux Boreal.-Amer. v. i. 

 320.) — Leaves deeply three -cleft ; fegments three-lobed, 

 notched, acute. Involucral ones fimUar, feflUe. Petals 

 five, elliptical. Seeds villous. — In meadows, and on the 

 borders of woods, from Canada to Pennfylvania, flowering 

 in June and July. Flowers large, white, with yeUow ait- 

 thers. PurJh. Sir Jofeph Banks has fpecimens from Fort 

 Albany and Hudfon's bay. De Cand. We have one from 

 the late Peter CoUinfon's garden at MiU-hiU, probably of 

 an earlier date than 1766 ; fee Hort. Kew. This is a tall, 

 apparently caulelcent, fpecies, whofe Jlower Jlalk is angular, 

 a foot and a half or two feet high, twice forked, and vari- 

 oufly compound. The radical leaves we have not feen ; De 

 CandoUe defcribes them with long footjlalks, as tall as the 

 flowering ftalk, and deeply divided into three or five prin- 

 cipal lobes, which are oblong-lanceolate ; wedge-fliaped at 

 the bafe ; pointed, cut and toothed, at the extremity. 

 Such, nearly, are the general, as well as partial, involucral 

 leaves, but feflUe, the former three, the latter two, at each 

 divifion of the ftalk ; all ftroagly ribbed, two or three inches 

 long, flightly downy witli fmall, clofe, fcjttered hairs. 



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