NAT. ORDER. 
Hanuncidacecs. 
ANEMONE HORTENSIS. BROAD-LEAVED GARDEN ANEMONE. 
Class XIII. PoLYANDRiA. Order VI Polygnia. 
Gen Char. Involucre^ three cut-leaves, distant from the flower. 
Calyx of five to fifteen petal-like, colored sepals. Petals v^^anting. 
Spe. Char. Leaves ternate. Segments multifid. Lohules, linear, 
. mucronated. Leaves of the involucrum sessile, multifid. Se- 
pals six, oval. 
The stems of this plant, when under a state of cultivation, rise 
from ten to fifteen inches in height. The root-leaves appear to be of 
two kinds : one very deeply gashed, so much that they have the 
appearance of being five-fingered, but are in reality three parted, the 
side-lobes being two-parted to the very base ; all the lobes are nar- 
row and sharp ; the side ones deeply bifid, the middle ones trifid or 
quadrifid, the extreme ones sharply lanceolate — the other kind 
broad, deeply three-lobed, blunt, bluntly and shortly serrate at the 
tip, with an awn standing out; the leaf on the stem, or involucre, is 
ternate ; the leajlets ovate, lanceolate ; the peduncle is solitary and 
one-flowered ; the petals three times three (in the natural flowers), 
long, elliptic, marked with lines, the outer ones subhirsute on the 
outside, white at the base with green lines ; the roots consist of small 
white fibres, which are tuberous. 
There are numerous varieties of this species, both with single and 
double flowers : the single and double Yellow ; the Purple Star 
Anemone, darker and paler ; Violet Purple ; Purple-striped ; Car- 
nation ; Gredeline, between a peach color and a violet ; Cochenille, 
of a fine reddish violet or purple ; Cardinal, of a rich crimson red ; 
Blond-red, of a deeper, but not so lively a red ; Crimson ; Stamell, 
near unto a scarlet ; Incarnadine, of a fine delayed red or flesh-color ; 
Vol. iv.— 96. 
