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| ments ate quite diftin& froin thele,..as. fiom the. May, 
Petals, in Number and Office.. They grow to ——— 
the Receptacle in a double, triple, or quadruple 
Series, very thick fet; and as. they are fhorter 
than the inner Tuft or outer Verge of Petals, 
they are not feen in a general View of the 
Flower: the outer Petals muft be pull’d back, or 
the inner drawn forward, in order to difcover them; 
but when thus difclos’d, they form a very fingular 
| and elegant Part of the Flower. | 
- The Filaments are Crimfon, arid the Buttons 
Purple; pale, and thin in the Middle, deeper and 
theckopay fae lidages. mT OY OT 3 
The Structure of thedouble Anemonehas not been 
yet well underftood, or thefe Parts duly regarded. 
. We.are to refer the Student, who would trace the 
Claffical Characters of the Plant, to the common 
fingle fine-leav’d Kind: there he will fee the natural 
. Difpofition of ‘the Parts, and thence he will be 
led to underftand what, we are about to fay here 
of' the Conftru@tion of the double Flower. 
In the fingle he will find a Clufter of Germs or 
_ Rudiments of Seéds, each furnith’d with its Style 
and Head, occupying the Centre of the Flower, 
and furrounded by numerous capillary F laments, 
of ‘about half the Length of the Petals, termi- 
nated- by double upright Buttons. Thefe’Fila- 
ments grow'to the Receptacle; and as the nume- 
rous Rudiments of Seeds with their Styles thew it 
one of the Polygyzia, the Number and Place of 
the Filaments refer it to the Polyandria, 
In the double Flower he finds thefe numerous 
Crimfon Threads fix’d:to the Receptacle, and ter- 
minated by erect doubled Heads, the thin and 
pale Part in the Centre making the Divifion. 
Thefe are the vitiated and alter’d F ilaments and ~ 
Buttons: they now ferve only the Office of beauti- 
ag : fying the Flower ;-for as there are no Rudiments 
Extremities, and there they are very neatly white. | of Seeds to impregnate, they have no Farina 
The Crimfon they have. is faint,, and. isnot |’ The numerous naprow Petals that form the a 
univerfal, but laid,in Lines with undetermin’d | bular Fulnefs of the Flower, occupy the Place of 
Edges, “as Art difpofes the Colours in thofe, the Flead or Clufter of Rudiments. ~ 
_ figur’d clouded Silks, which do fo much Honour, 
to the Engli/b Looms this Seafon. — The Out-line 
is undetermin’d, and the Colour lofes itfelf in a 
vague clouded Edge among the White of the 
Go oe a bias 
This is the Colouring of the outer or larger 
Petals. ‘The inner Tuft is compos’d of innume- | 
rable long and narrow ones; fmall at the Bafe, 
broadeft toward the Top, and obtufe at the. 
The Colour in thefe appears, at a little Diftance, | 
exactly what we exprefs by the T erm Peach Bloom ; 
a pure White, ftain’d with a delicate and flefhy 
Crimfon. When nearer view’d, the Crimfon in 
found difpos’d as in the outer Petals: the Body 
of the Colour lies at the Bafe of each; and from 
this, are Lines and Streaks of a fainter Tin: thefe 
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“May. The Word was firit us’d in Defcriptions of the 
——— _umbelliferous Kinds, in which there ftands often 
at the Bafe of the feveral main Footftalks a leafy 
Appendage, and another at the Bottom of each | 
Subdivifion. Thefe Appendages, as they in fome 
Degree ftood in the Place of Cups, yet could not 
properly be call’d by that Name Linn ays term’d > 
Involucra; and the’ farne Name he has extended 
to this leafy Appendage of the Anemones. 
There grows no other Leaf upon the Stalk. 
This has a Swelling where it rifes, and more.or 
 tefs perfectly furrounds the Stalk. It is naturally 
divided in the ternate Manner, or by Three’s, in | 
larger and fmaller Parts; and always the Divifion 
is into Three’s, at the Ends of the larger Segments. 
The Body is of the fame pale green with the. 
Leaves, but often at the Edges ting’d with brown. 
On the Summit of the Stalk is plac’d one 
Flower, naked (for this remote Involucrum is all 
~ its Cup) elegantly form’d, and much more ele- 
gantly colour’d. It confifts-of a Range. of outer 
Petals, broad and expanded; anda globular Tuft in 
the Centre, compos’d of innumerable long and 
flender ones, forming themfelves into a Globe. 
On the Outfide of thefe, between the round 
Clufter and the Verge of broader Petals, ftand a’ 
‘Multitude of fingular Bodies; very elegant 
in Form and Colouring, and diftinét. from both :. 
thefe are a kind of fplit Buttons, fupported on 
dong flender Threads; and they are, in Reality, 
the Filaments and Antheree of the natural’ Flower, 
degenerated from their original Form and Uf, 
and ferving to encreafe the Beauty and. Variety. - 
The Petals are fometimes fix, fometimes nine, 
but when the Flower is moft perfeét, they are 
twelve. Thefe are of a delicate faint Crimfon at | 
the Bafe, and on the Outfide are a little hairy. 
From the Bottom the Colour grows fainter to the 
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with an oblong Receptacle cover’d with Rudiments 
of Seeds, and furrounded by numerous F ilaments, » 
| with. their Buttons. | ! | 
Culture encreafes the Number of the proper 
_ fun to the Extremities, and are fo well blended 
with the White, that at a very {mall Diftance they 
have the Effect of a fingle Colour. 
Thefe {mall Petals as they approach the Centre, 
grow yet narrower; and there perfectly. occupy 
the Place of that Head of Rudiments of Seeds 
which otherwife would diftinguifh that Part of 
the Flower. Thé little Heads and their, Fila- 
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Petals to nine or twelve, adding one or two Se- 
ries: it colours the Filaments, and ‘their Heads 
| with Crimfon and with Purple, and makes them 
firmer.and more gloffy ; and in the Place of Ru- 
diments of Seeds, it throws from the Receptacle 
Petals of a peculiar Form, in Series quite innu- 
merable, 
The Plant in its fimple State is wild in the 
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