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NAT. ORDER. RANUNCULACE^. 
larly at the base ; each part op leaf (for some consider i as three 
leaves), is trifid ; each leaflet being gash-serrate, and hairy under- 
neath, especially on the nerves ; the peduncle is from one to two 
inches long, and is only a continuation of the stem, and springs from 
the centre of the leaf; the flower consists of six or seven oblong- 
ovate petals, sometimes ending bluntly, sometimes emarginate, and 
sometimes even gashed or lacerate. The usual color is white, but 
they are often tinged with purple on the outside, particularly the 
three outer ones ; and sometimes they are entirely purple on both 
sides. The joint of the stem and the backs of the leaves are also 
apt to be tinged with red. The varieties are : with single flowers, 
with double flowers white, with single purple flowers, with double 
purple flowers, and with reddish purple flowers. 
Anemone apennina. Mountain-blue Wood Anemone. In this 
species the root is perennial and tuberous ; the stem round, purplish, 
and about a span high ; the root-leaves on long petioles, ternate, and 
leaflets usually three-parted ; the segments variously cut and divided, 
somewhat pointed, hairy on both sides ; one three-parted leaf, or 
three leaves together on the stem, like the others, but on short, 
sheathing petioles. From the centre of these arises the peduncle, 
about six inches high, round, and purplish except near the flower, 
where it is green. The stem-leaves and peduncle are slightly hairy ; 
the flowers are upright, of a pale blue color, and sweet smell ; the 
petals oblong, from twelve to fifteen, and disposed in three rows. It 
flowers in April. The varieties are : with single blue flowers, with 
double blue flowers, with single violet-colored flowers, and with 
double violet-colored flowers. 
Anemone ranunculoides. Yellow-wood Anemone. This plan 
differs from the one previously described, in its having a yellow 
corolla, and two petals standing alternately outer, and two inner, and 
one having one side within and the other side without the next 
petal — whereas that has three outer and three inner petals ; it differs 
also in the peduncles being accompanied with two leaflets, the latter 
