brittle, and furnished with brown fibres. Leaves on long foot-stalks, 
ternate or quinate, mostly 3-cleft, always irregularly cut ; the margin 
and ribs slightly hairy. Involucrum of 3 similar leaves, with shorter 
leaf-stalks, situated above half way up the flower-stalk, which is 
simple and slightly hairy. Flowers rather drooping, solitary. Petals 
white, often purplish at the back, each more than half an inch long, of 
an oblong-oval shape, with a shallow notch at the summit. Germens 
(figs. 2 & 3.) downy. Seeds (figs. 4 & 5.) beaked with the style 
almost their own length. — The flowers expand in fine clear weather, 
but close, and bend downwards in the evening, or in wet weather, 
whereby the delicate parts of the flower are secured from injury. 
Mr. Hutton observed a variety with the petals entirely of a purplish 
red colour, near Keswick ; the same variety has been observed in 
Devonshire ; and in a grass ground on the North side of Shotover 
Hill, near Oxford, in April, 1831. A double-flowered variety is 
commonly cultivated in gardens. The whole plant is acrid. Accord- 
ing to Linnaeus, oxen, goats, and sheep eat it, but horses and swine 
refuse it. Cattle brought from open to woody pastures, and eating 
of this plant, have been effected with the bloody-flux. — Dr. Wither- 
ing informs us, on the authority of Swediaur, that the recent 
flowers are poisonous ; that the plant yields an acrid, volatile prin- 
ciple, so corrosive as to be used externally, instead of cantharides ; 
and that it is serviceable in head-aches, tertian agues, and rheumatic 
gout. 
A beautiful little parasite, JEc'idium leucospermum of Decan- 
dolle, (Baxter’s Stir. Crypt. Oxon. No. 89), is not uncommon on 
the leaves, and sometimes on the flowers of this Anemdne, in the 
vicinity of Oxford, especially in Bagley Wood, and on Shotover 
Hill. It also produces, on its leaves and leaf-stalks, the Puccinia 
Anemones of Persoon (Baxter’s St. Crypt. Oxon. No. 82) in plenty. 
Uredo Anemones is also found upon it, but not common. The roots 
are sometimes attacked by Pez'iza tuberosa, (Sowerby’s Fungi, 
t. 63), which is very destructive to them. I once lost a whole bed 
of British Anemones, consisting of Anemdne nemordsa, double and 
single; A. Ranunculo'ides ; and A. Apennina\; entirely through 
the ravages of this fungus. 
A leaf of Anemdne nemordsa, with Puccinia anemones growing 
on its under surface, was mistaken by Dr. Dillenius for a species of 
Fern, and was by him described and figured as such, in his edition of 
Ray’s Syn. p. 124. t. 3. fig. 1., under the name of Filix lobata, 
globulis pulverulentis undique aspersa. The original specimen, 
from which the drawing was made, is still preserved in the Bobar- 
tian Herbarium in the Library of the Oxford Botanic Garden. 
See Loudon’s Gardeners’ Mag. v. iii. p. 490. 
t The Anemone apennina has been found by Mrs. Pearce, of Beaumont- 
street, Oxford, in a copse near Shillingford, Berks; on the left hand in the lane 
from Hatford, after crossing the turnpike road ; plentiful. 
