724 468. Adonis. 85. R ANUNCULACEAE. PL ex. that 
1 . Adonis autumnalis. Autumn maithes* 
Calyx bald; petals concave, connivent, scarcely larger 
than the calyx ; cariopsides nearly reticulately collected into 
an ovate head ; stem branched. 
Flos Adonis, Raii Syn. 251, Park. Par. 293. 
Flos Adonis fiore rubro, Ger. em. 387, 1. 
Adonis autumnalis, Lin. S. P. 771. 
Adonis flower. Red maithes . Red camomile. Rose-a-ruby . Red mo- 
rocco. 
Corn-fields ; annual ; May and October. 
Flowers blood-red. 
2. Adonis cestivalis. Summer maithes . 
Calyx hispid at bottom ; petals flat, oblong, obtuse, 
twice as long as the calyx ; cariopsides reticulately disposed 
in a long loose spike ; stem scarcely branched. 
Adonis aestivalis, Lin. S. P. 772. 
Adonis miniata, Jacquin Austr. 354. 
Corn-fields ; annual ; May to October. 
Calyx long ; flowers peduncled, small, dark red ; petals 
oblong, blunt ; cariopsides distant on the spike. 
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XIII. 469. ANEMONANTHAE.A. De Cand. Anemone . 
Involucrum 3-leaved, distant from the flower ; calyx 5 to 
15-sepaled; sepales petal-like; petals 0; stamens many, in- 
definite ; cariopsides many, ovate, with a hooked more or 
less hirsute style. — Plants stemless ; leaves radica \; peduncles 
solitary or in pairs, leafless, 1 -flowered. 
a. Involucrum-leaflets petioled ; rhizoma ovate, tuberose; 
sepales 10 to 15. 
1 . Anemonanthea Apennina. Apennine anemone . 
Leaves 3-ternately-cut ; segments lanceolate, deeply 
toothed, teeth acute; petiole branched; involucral leaflets 
petioled, 3-cut, deeply toothed ; sepales 12 or 14, oblong, 
blunt. 
Anemone q. Ranuneulas nemorosus, fiore purpureo caeruleo Parkinson 
(325), Dillen in Raii Syn . 259, 2. 
Anemone geranifolia, Ger. em. 377,8. 
Anemone Apennina, Lin. S. P. 762. 
Geranium-leaved anemone. Stork? s-bill wind-flower. 
Woods; perennial; April. 
Root black ; leaves longly petioled ; scape bald; involucrum 
like the leaves; pedice'lls villous; flowers upright, light 
blue ; sepcdes 4 times as long as the stamens. 
