I. EANUNCULACE.E. / 



(A. apennina, Eng. Bot. t. 1062) and the yellow A. (A. ranunculoides, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 1484), both, with the habit and carpels of the wood A., 

 but the one with bright blue, the other with yellow flowers, appear to 

 have occasionally strayed into our woods and plantations, and have 

 therefore been included in most British Floras. 



1. Pasque Anemone. Anemone Pulsatilla, Linn. (Fig. 5.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 51. Pasque-flower.) 



Eootstock thick and woody. Radical 

 leaves on long stalks, covered when 

 young with silky hairs, and two or three 

 times divided into long linear segments. 

 Elower-stalk 5 to 8 inches high, with the 

 involucre at first near the flower, but 

 becoming gradually more remote as the 

 fruit ripens, and consisting of three ses- 

 sile leaves, deeply cut into linear seg- 

 ments. Flowers 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 

 sian Asia, but not very far northwards. Distributed over several 

 of England, but wanting in Scotland. Fl. spring. 



Fig. 5. 



Eus- 

 parts 



2. Wood Anemone. Anemone nemorosa, Linn. (Fig. G.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 355.) 



Eootstock black and horizontal, emit- 

 ting from its extremity two or three 

 leaves and a single flower-stalk, all gla- 

 brous or but slightly downy. Leaf-stalks 

 long, with three ovate or lanceolate leaf- 

 lets, toothed or lobed, or often divided 

 almost to the base into three 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 or reddish outside, and 

 perfectly glabrous. Carpels downy, with Fig. 6. 



a point nearly as long as themselves, but not feathery. 



Common in and near woods, throughout Europe and Eussian Asia, 



