Anemone Nemorosa. Wood Anemony. 



ANEMONE tJnnal Gen. PL Polyandria PolygyniA. 



Cal. o. Petala 6-9. Sem. plura* 



tUii Gen. 15. Herb;e semine nudo polyspermy. 

 ANEMONE Nemorofa feminibus acutis, foliolis incifis, caule unifloro. Linncei. Syjl. Vegetab. p. 425. 



Flora Suecic. p. 190« 

 ANEMONE feminibus nudis, caule .unifloro, jfoliis radicalibus nullis, caulinis quinque-partitis, lobis 



tripartitis inicifis. Haller. Hift. Heh. 2. p. 64. 



ANEMONE Nemorofa. Scopoli Fit CarnioL p. 383. n. 660. 

 ANEMONE fylveftris alba major. Bauhin Pin. 176. 

 ANEMONE nemorum alba. Gerard emac. 383. 



RANUNCULUS nemorofus albus fimplex. Parkin/on. 325. Rati Syn. 259, Wood Anemony. Hudfon 

 FL Angl. 208. Oeder FL Dan. tab. 549. 



RADIX teres, per terram oblique repens, craffitie pen- % ROOT round, creeping obliquely under the furface of the 



nae coracis, externe cafr.anea,intusalba, fragilis, I earth, the thicknefs of a crow quill, externally 



fibrillis fufcis praedita. % chefnut colour'd, internally white, brittle, 



I furnifhed with brown fibres. 



CAULIS teres, fimplex, triuncialis circiter, purpuraf- j STALK round, fimple, about three inches high, pur- 

 cens, pilis mollibus veftitus, trifoliatus. | plifh, covered with foft hairs, and bearing 



% three leaves. 



FOLIA terna, fubtus hirfutula, tripartita, lobis incifis, | LEAVES growing three together, {lightly hairy under- 

 lateralibus fere ufque ad bafin diviiis. ¥ neath, formed of three fegments ; the fide 



1 lobes divided nearly down to the bafe. 



% 

 PETIOLI breves, vaginantes. | FOOT-STALKS of the leaves fhort, and forming a 



I kind of {heath. 



SCAPUS uniflorus, nutans. | FLOWER-STALK fupporting one flower, and droop- 



y ' ing at top. 



CALYX nullus. | CALYX wanting. 



COROLLA : Petala fex aut feptem, oblongo-ovata, | COROLLA : fix or feven Petals, of an oblong oval 

 alba, fubtus incarnata, patentia, fubemargi- % fhape, white, underneath purplifh, fpreading, 



nata, fig. 1. | {lightly notched in at top, fig. 1. 



% 

 STAMINA: Filamenta numerofa, inaequalia, ca- ? STAMINA: Filaments numerous, unequal, very 



pillaria, filiformia, alba : Antherje flavaa | fmall, thread fhaped and white : Antherje 



fubrotundae, biloculares, compreflae : Pollen ■% yellow, roundim, of two cavities, flattifh, 



album, /3% 2, 3. I Pollen white, fig. 2, 3. 



PIST1LLUM: Germina in capitulum collecta, ovata, % PISTILLUM : Germina collected into a little head, 

 villofa : Styli fubulati, incurvati : Stigma | oval, villous: Styles tapering and bending 



fimplex, /3-. 4, 5. I downwards: Stigma fimple, fig. 4, 5. 



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SEMINA plurima, nuda, oblonga, hirfuta, mucrone | SEEDS feveral, naked, oblong, hairy, the top bending 

 incurvo, fig. 6, 7, auct. % downwards, fig. 6, 7, magnified. 



FROM the obfervations of feveral Authors, the Wood Anemone may be considered as a poifonous plant. 

 According to Linnjeus, Cattle which have been brought from open to woody paftures, and have eaten of this 

 plant, have been affected with the bloody Flux, and have made bloody Urine. Haller informs us, that in 

 Kamtfchatka, the inhabitants are faid to poifon their Arrows with a fpecies of Anemone, the wounds from 

 tvhich produce certain death. 



The Wood Anemone produces its flowers early in the Spring. In molt of our Woods the ground is nearly covered 

 with them, in the months of April and May. In fine clear weather the bloflbms are expanded, and become fo erect 

 as to face the fun % but in the evening, and in wet weather, they are. clofed and hang down, whereby the delicate 

 parts of the flower are fecured from injury. 



The chief variation obferved in it, is the colour of its Petals, which are fometimes quite white : and ac- 

 cording to MerreT, they occur in Devon/hire wholly red : both forts, particularly when double, are cultivated 

 by the Gardeners: and were the fame pains to be taken with it, as with fome of our foreign Anemonies, it 

 might probably be very much improved in the eye of the Florifh 



The leaves of divers plants, particularly the Euphorbia Heliofcopia, are fubject to be covered with fmall yel- 

 low dots, the effects of fome Infect:- this alfo fometimes happens to the Wood Anemone. InC. Bauhine, we 

 find it mentioned under the name of Anemone nemorofa fterilis fillis pun Slat is. This variety is fomewhat un- 

 fortunately figured in Dillenius's edition of Ray's Synopjh, and defcribed as a Fern, to which it certainly 

 has no pretentions, as is evident from the irregularity of its dots. 



