ANEMO'NE JAPON'ICA. 
JAPANESE ANEMONE. 
Class. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEvE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
China. 
2 feet. 
Autumn. 
Perennial. 
in 1844. 
No. 1105. 
All botanists agree that the word Anemone is 
derived from the Greek anemos, wind ; but it is 
not quite so evident why the name was applied to 
this genus. Gerard quotes Pliny, and says, “the 
flower doth never open itself but when the wind 
doth blow.” This, to us, however, appears some- 
what apocryphal. 
The Japan Anemone, of which we now give an 
engraving, was imported from China, by the Lon- 
don Horticultural Society, having been discovered 
there by their Collector, Mr. Fortune. It does not, 
however, appear that he found it wild in China, 
but planted among the graves of the Chinese, in 
the neighbourhood of Shanghae. 
In Fortune’s Wanderings in China, we find the 
following allusion to this subject, in which he men- 
tions his discovery of the Anemone Japonica. 
“The flowers which the Chinese plant on or 
among the tombs are simple and beautiful in their 
kind. No expensive Camellias, Moutans, or other 
of the finer ornaments of the garden are chosen for 
this purpose. Sometimes the conical mound of 
earth — when the grave is of this kind — is crowned 
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