ANEMO'NE RANUNCULOl'DES. 
RANUNCULUS-LIKE ANEMONE. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCU LACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
6 inches. 
Mar. & Apr. 
Perennial. 
Woods. 
No. 846. 
The derivation of Anemone has been noticed. 
Although there can be no reasonable doubt but 
the Anemone ranunculoides is indigenous to Eng- 
land, there is not, probably, one of our readers who 
has had the pleasure of collecting it from its native 
haunts. We say pleasure — perhaps, may have 
said ecstacy, and we fancy many of our readers will 
be sensible of the application of such expression, 
having felt nature’s enchantment when looking, 
for the first time, on a rare and beautiful plant — 
long known by description, but now discovered in 
its own secluded habitat — 
“ Where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, 
When the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind.” 
Such felicity is reserved for the truly zealous 
naturalist — he who searches out the beauties of 
creation in their secluded avenues, and bears them 
home, in the triumph of his heart, as the choicest 
treasures of science. 
The Anemone ranunculoides, when seen in well- 
grown patches, makes a pleasing appearance in 
spring. It will flourish in common soil, and may 
be increased by division of its tuberous roots. 
