1% Anemone quinquefolia. 



from various states in the Union. The result is, that I see no reason 

 to alter my opinion expressed on this species in the " Compendium 

 Flora; Philadelphia," several years ago; and that opinion goes to 

 confirm the correct decision formed of this plant by Muhlenburg. It 

 differs specifically from the description and figures of A. nemorosa 

 of Europe, and also from specimens of the foreign plant which I have 

 examined. 



The genus Anemone has its derivation from •»«*«, the wi?id, from 

 the old notion that the flowers of this genus do not expand except 

 when the wind blows, or because the plant grows in situations much 

 exposed to the wind. Hence a common name is wind-flower. There 

 are nearly forty species which principally belong to Europe, ten are 

 natives of this country — and some are found in Barbary, the Levant, 

 Siberia, Japan, and South America. 



Fig. 3. Represents the plant of its common size, about an inch of 

 the root being cut off by the line of the plate. 



