The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DIVISION II. 
I. Fine-leaved red Anemoni?!, 
Anemom tenuifolia flore rubente. 
The rcoL is large, thick, and of an irregular 
fojm. 
The leaves are numerous : they rife from 
feverai heads of the lame root, a duller from 
each ; and have footftalks of two or three inches 
in length. They are large, and in the whole of 
a fomewhac triangular form. Each is divided 
into three principal parts, two at the bottom, 
and one at the end ; and thefe are again deeply 
indented. 
The ftalk is robufl:, purplilli nCiir the bot- 
tom, and tt'u inches high. 
Toward its middle there fland three leaves, 
all growing from one place ; and they are fmall, 
and have no footftalks. They refemble the lepa- 
rate divifions of the lower leaves. 
The flower is fingle, large, and of a pale red : 
not rarely it is white, or very faintly tinged : 
but red is the natural colour. It is compofed of 
fix leaves, and has a large tuft of threads in the 
middle. 
The feeds ftand in a fmall naked button. 
It is a native ot the Eaft, and flowers in the 
fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it A?icmoiie tcmnfollo fimplici 
fore. 
We had it originally from Conftantinople ; and 
it is raifed to great beauty, and with great va- 
riety in our gardens, by being made double, and 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
of a variety of colours, from the deepefl red with 
a purple tinge, to the palefl flefli colour. 
2. Trifoliate Anemone. 
Anemom frifolia. 
The root is long and (lender, and fprcads un- 
der the furface of the ground, dividing into fe- 
verai parts, and fending up leaves from many 
heads. Its colour is brown, its tafte acrid, and 
it has many fibres. 
The leaves ftand three on each footftalk ; and 
are of an oval figure, pointed, ferrated,' and 
without feparate footftalks; adhering by their 
bafe to the top of the ftalk rifing from the 
root, which is three inches long, (lender, and 
purplifh. 
The ftalk is fix inches high, round, weak, and 
purplifli. 
The leaves are three on this ftalk. They all 
rife from the fame point, and have long foot- 
ftalks, each confifting of three other diftinft 
leaves, and in all refpcfls refembling tHofe that 
rife immediately from the root. 
The flower is large and beautiful. It is white, 
with a blufli of purple, and refembles the flower 
of the common wood-anemone. It is compofed of 
fix petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre. 
The feeds follow in a naked head. 
It is a native of France, and fome other parts 
of Europe, and flowers in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anemone triJoUa flare alio. 
GENUS X. 
PLEASANT EYE. 
ADONIS. 
rpHE flower oi O^zadonis confifts of an uncertain number of petals, with a tuft of extremely flrort 
A threads in the centre : the feeds ftand naked m a longilh head ; and the leaves are divided 
into fine fegments. 
Linn^-us places it among the polyaj^dria folygy„ia ; and he very juftly reduces to this ..enus that 
plant commonly known by the name of flne-kaved Hack heMo-/e. That is indeed a fpecies of adon's ■ 
and they were guflty of introducing confufion into the fcience who called it bv the name of another 
genus, to which it by no means belongs. Linna;us deferves praife, that he calls this a fpecies of 
adonis; and ,t were to be wiflred he had not admitte.l the real black hellebores into the fame clafs. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Adonis. 
Adonis radice annua. 
The root is long, flender, whitifh, and fur- 
niflied with large fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, divided into a great 
number of fmall and fine fegments, and placed 
on footftalks of two inches long. They are of a 
pale green colour, and tender fubllance. 
The ftalks are lound, ftriated, green, and a 
foot and half high. They divide into many 
branches, and ftand tolerably upright. 
I'he leaves grow on them irregularly, and are 
like thofc which rife from the root, but fniallcr. 
1 he flowers ftand at the tops of the branches : 
they are moderately large, and of a beautiful fear- 
let colour ; and are compofed of an uncertain 
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number of petals, with a bundle of threads, hav- 
ing deep purple heads, in the centre. 
The feeds ftand naked in a longifli clufter. 
It is common in fome parts of England in 
corn-fields, and flowers in Auguft ; it is no where 
fo frequent as in Kent and Suflex. 
C. Bauhine calls it Floi adonis mu!go aliis eran- 
thcmiim ; others Adonis, and Flos adonis. 
The flower is ibmetimcs of apurplifli colour, and 
the leaves are fometimes longer than in the com- 
mon ftate of the plant. Thde are varieties only j 
but they have been defcribcd as feparate fpecies. 
It has not been any where much ufed in me- 
dicine. Some recommend an infufion of the 
flov/ers in wine for cholieks ; but there are many 
better remedies ; and this wants the autKority of 
more experience. 
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