Virgimiana. 
quinquefolia. 
POLYANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. 
Wild Anemone. 
This delicate plant is universally esteemed for its beauty. 
Flowers white, with a tendency to duplication in the petals, 
under culture. It is now cultivated in gardens and in flower- 
pots, in this double state. In woods or rich soil, every where 
very common. Perennial. April, May. 
2. A. stem dichotomous, leaves thrice ternate, up- 
per ones opposite ; folioles cut-lobate, serrate 
and acute; pecuncles solitary, one-flowered, 
elongated ; seeds in an oblong capitulum, woolly, 
mucronate.—Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Herm. parad. t. 18. 
Virginian Anemone. 
From fourteen inches to two feet high.. Flowers green- 
ish-white. In open woods, hedges,and on the borders of 
neglected fields; frequent. Perennial. May, June. 
5. A. stem one-flowered, stem leaves thrice ter- 
nate, lateral ones deeply bipartile; folioles cu- 
neate, cut-lobate, dentate, acute; corolla 5—6 
petalled, seeds ovate, pointed. B. 
A. nemorosa, Mich. 
A. nemorosa, g. quinquefolia, Willd. and Pursh. 
A. quinguefolia, Muhl. 
Icon. Pluk. alm. t. 106. f. 3. 
Five-leaved Anemone. 
A very delicate and handsome species, about six or seven 
inches high, bearing a single blossom-red flower. This plant 
has often been confounded with the A. nemorosa of Europe, 
but it is certainly specifically distinct. It does not agree either 
with the descriptions or figure of that plant. In shady woods 
and copses, forming large patches together; very common. 
Perennial. Early in May. 
257. THALICTRUM. Gen. pl. 951. (anunculacee.) 
Calix none. Petals 4 or5. Stamina very 
long. Seeds ecaudate, striate, terete. 

