322 Anemone. 



Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays 

 Her idle freaks, from family diffused 

 To family, as flies the father-dust, 

 The varied colors run, and while they break 

 On the charm'd eye, the exulting florist marks. 

 With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 

 No gradual bloom is wanting, from the bud 

 First-born of spring, to summer's musky tribes; 

 Nor hyacinths, of purest virgin white, 

 Low-bent, and blushing inward ; nor jonquils 

 Of potent fragrance ; nor narcissus fair, 

 As o'er the fabled fountain hanging still; 

 Nor broad carnations, nor gay spotted pinks, 

 Nor shower'd from every bush, the damask rose 

 Infinite numbers, delicacies, smells, 

 With hues on hues expression cannot paint, 

 The breath of Nature and her endless bloom. 



Anemone. 



The Anemone Coronaria — Garden Anemone, is in the 

 class Polyandria, order Polygynia ; its generic name is derived 

 from a Greek word, signifying wind, because it flowers both 

 in a windy season and in exposed windy situations. Its 

 characters are : calyx, none ; petals, six or nine ; seeds, many. 

 Specific characters : — leaves, tenate, with multified segments 

 and linear mucronate lobes. Sepals, six oval close. Lindley 

 remarks, that the Anemones are a charming collection of pretty 

 flowers, with their purple, white, or scarlet petals, which 

 modestly hang their heads as if unwilling to expose their 

 beauty to every curious eye. These have their calyx and 

 corolla mixed together, so that one cannot be distinguished 

 from the other, and when their flowers are gone, they bear 

 little tufts of feathery tails or oval wooly heads ; which are 

 collections of the grains of the Anemone, and contain seeds ; 

 the tails themselves are nothing but the styles of the carpels 

 grown large, and hard, and hairy ; they are thought to be 

 intended by Nature as wings upon which the grains may be 

 carried by the wind from place to place. 



