~ Ipondent” with it, 
tilla, to which Baunine adds, as its farther Di- 
fhiideicnt folio eraffore © majore fore. | 
Linnavus, more correct than thefe early Wri- 
ters, in his Characters does not admit this as 
a diftinct Genus. Its effential Marks are the 
fame with: thofe of the Avemone, and he tefers 
it to that kind; adding as the Diftin@ion, Pe- 
dunculo involucrato petalis rectis, foliis bipinnatis : 
Bipinnate leaved Anemone, with a leafy Involu- 
crum on the Top of the Stalk, and with ftrait 
Petals. 
The Involucrum, ferving as a Cup to the 
Flower, has been us’d as a Generical Diftinction ; 
and with the Addition of the Hairynefs and. Tails 
of the Seeds, conftitutes the feparate Charaéter 
of Pulfatilla. Linnavus regards thefe only as 
Diftinctions of the Species; and Van Royen, 
Datizarp, and others, follow him. 
The Root is long and thick; black on the 
Surface, fplit into many Heads, and tufted on 
the Crown of each, with the fine Fibres of de- 
cay’d Leaves ; bitter to the Tate, and actid. 
- The Leaves are of a pale hoary green, and are 
fupported on long weak Footftalks, naturally of 
a deep red toward the Ground, and paler up- | 
Fach Leaf is divided and fubdivided in | 
wards. 
the pinnated Manner ; 
and narrow. ~ ‘aie 
The Flower-ftalks rife among ‘thefe, two. or 
thore from every Head of | the | Root; fo that 
when the Plant is carefully manag’d, it is not 
and the Segments are fmall 
uncommon to fee a Clufter of eight or ten burft- ; 
ing out in their full Glory together. 
There are no Leaves upon this Stalk, ‘except 
be call’d by that Name. > 
Its Colour is purple at he: Bate, of a whitith 
green upwards; and it is hollow, light, and 
hairy. Three or four Inches is its natural Height 
when crown’d with the Flower; but when the | 
from its Seeds, 
Seeds ‘are ripening it grows taller: this is the 
Provifion ef Nature for giving them to the Winds. 
Each Flower is the Load of one of. thefe, 
Stalks; and notwithftanding their Thicknefs, it is 
_more than they are able to ) fupport well erect, 
The leafy Involucrum. rifes. with a firm. cay 
vided into numerous very narrow and long Seg- 
ments, which fpread every ‘way from this circular 
tity. of light Pafture Mould, taken from -a_ hilly 
but not barren Clofe, with ahtout one fifth Part of 
Bafe: thefe are of a whitith green, and covered 
with a thick grey ‘hairy Down. - 
This fhields the Bafe of the Flower, which 
rifes in its hollow Bofom from the Summit of the 
Stalk, and is not lefs fingular than beautiful. . 
Its Bignefs is equal to that of the larger fingle. 
Anemonies : its Colour a mott elegant Violet. 
purple, fhining with a “peculiar Smoothnefs_ and: 
Delicacy on the Infide, while the whole outer 
Part or Back is hairy. 
The Body of the Flower is compos'd of fix 
Petals: three of thefe ftand more inward than, the 
others, and are of a deeper Tinge. ‘The other 
three are a little more outward and paler. 4 15 
not the Effet of Light and Shade, tho’ corre- 
but the true Tinct of the 
In the Centre. 6f the Flower ftand numerous 
fhort Filaments, crown’d with upright Buttons, 
which feem compofed each of two well conneé- 
ed Parts. 
In the Midit of this Tuft of Filaments appear 
the Rudiments: of the Seeds. They are nime~ 
-rous, dhort, and collected into an oval Head, 
and they have eee Sonics terminated “ei obtufe 
Stigmata. 
This is the Sciamdhade as ides PF iersk of the 
Pulfatilla; from which the Student: will deter. 
mine as he thinks beft of .Linn.aus, who 
has arranged it in the fame Genus with the 
Anemone ; and will fee at once upon tracing thefe 
F creas to the Bafe, that they arife from the 
Receptacle, and that the Plant i is of the Polyan- 
drous ‘Tribe. 
Lhe, Number of the toy correfpondent to 
that of the Rudiments of the Seeds, thews it alfo 
to be one of the Polygynia: the Seeds follow 
in a naked. Head, and are hairy, and terminated 
by a Kind of Tails. 
— Culture of this Puusatitia. 
No Plant can be better. adapted for the Gar- 
| dener’s obtaining C redit from its Culture than the 
| Pulfatilla, . DAE th TO S 
There can require no Care for keeping alive in 
cultivated Ground, an Hetb that ftands the bleak 
Air in our Fields, and lives and thrives Pai the 
the Involucrum of the Flower, plac’d at its ae -moft barren Fills. 
This is all the common Poffeitor i ae Plant 
regards, and his Negleé Jeaves.it in a poor 
Condition ; but, under the Hand of Induftry,, 
| conducted by well-founded Knowledge in Gar+ 
dening, there may, with little Trouble, be rais’d, 
Let the Soil be fuch as. it is found to love bet 
in. its wild, Nature, only a little more enrich’d; 
{tance from the Rind of the ‘Stalk, and. is di-, but let the Compoft wherein it is rais’d from 
Seed be lighter. 
For thefe two = tetera mux x firtt a gave piri 
old. Gow-dung; and to a Load, of this add 
two Buthels of foft Chalk. 
Let thefe be well broke and smix’d brome? 
and then expos’d to the Air ina Heap, turning, 
them once in three Months all the Time the 
| Seedlings are growing. 
‘Nail up a Box. of. rough. Bioeeds, and ‘fill it 
with fome of this Compott, adding firft. to.each 
Bufhel half a Peck of Sand. Lay the. Surface 
‘level in the Box, and keep out a {mall Quantity 
for covering the Seeds. . , 
This is all the particular Care. The reft is 
but a Repetition of what we have directed in the, 
preceding Article. 
The 
a thoufand elegant Varieties :> 
it will difclofe as many Colours as the Peacock. | 
Anemone, and clufter its double Leaves as thick | 
as the Byzantine Crowfoot. 
