Anemone. | I. RANUNCULACE. i) 
Flowerstalk 5 to 8 inches high, with the involucre at first near the 
flower, but becoming more remote as the fruit ripens, its 3 sessile 
leaves deeply cut into linear segments. Flower solitary, large, with 6 
sepals of a dull violet-purple, very silky outside. Awns of the carpels 
long and feathery, like those of a Clematis. 
In open limestone pastures, in the greater part of Europe and Russian 
Asia, but not very far northwards. Occurs in several parts of England, 
but not in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. FI. spring. 
2. A. nemorosa, Linn. (fig. 6). Wood A.—Rootstock black and 
horizontal, emitting from its extremity 2 or 3 leaves and a single 
flowerstalk, all glabrous or but slightly downy. Leafstalks long, with 
3 ovate or lanceolate leaflets, toothed or*lobed, or often divided al- 
most to the base into 3 similarly shaped segments. Peduncle 3 to 6 
or 8 inches high, the involucral leaves at about two-thirds of its height, 
like the radical ones, but smaller, with shorter stalks, Sepals 6, white 
bluish or reddish outside, and perfectly glabrous. Carpels downy, 
with a point nearly as long as themselves, but not feathery. 
Common in and near woods, throughout Europe and North-west Asia 
and North America. Abundant in Britain. Fl. early spring. 
IV. ADONIS. ADONIS. 
Annual, or, in foreign species, perennial herbs. Leaves divided. 
Flowers red or straw-coloured. Sepals 5. Petals 5 or more; sometimes 
more deeply coloured at the base, but without the nectary of Ranunculus. 
‘Stamens usually numerous. Carpels numerous, without awns, in a 
elobular or oblong head each containing a single pendulous ovule. 
The species are few, chiefly from southern Europe and western Asia. 
1. A. autumnalis, Linn. (fig. 7). Pheasant’s Hye. —An erect annual, 
from 8 to 12 inches, or more, glabrous or slightly downy. Leaves 
finely divided into numerous narrow linear segments. Sepals green or 
slightly coloured. Petals 5 to 8, rather longer than the calyx, of a 
bright scarlet, with a dark spot at the base. Carpels numerous, and 
rather large, arranged in a head at first ovate or oblong, but which 
often lengthens and becomes cylindrical. 
In cornfields, in central and southern Europe and. western Asia. Not 
very common in Britain, but appears occasionally, especially in the 
warmer counties of England and Ireland, and sometimes in Scotland. 
Fl. summer and early autumn. <A variety with larger flowers was 
formerly much cultivated in flower-gardens under the name of Flos 
Adonis. 
V. MYOSURUS. MOUSETAIL. 
Annuals with entire leaves. Sepals 5, Petals 5, small, linear, with 
tubular claws. Stamens few. Carpels small, 1-seeded, very numerous, 
arranged in a long and dense cylindrical spike. Ovule attached near 
the top of the cell. - toe 
A genus containing one European and one western America species 
chiefly distinguished from the small-flowered Ranunculuses by the 
tubular claw of the petals, by the attachment of the ovule. 
1. M. minimus, Linn. (fig. 8). Common Mousetail.--A small annual 
with linear radical leaves, 1 to 3 inches, including their long footstalk. 
