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mats till the foliage becomes brown and withered, which is generally in about a month after the flowers have 
faded. The tubers should then be taken up, and laid on a shelf in an airy place to dry ; the stem and leaves 
being cut off when they are taken up. When quite dry, the tubers are put into paper bags, and kept till the 
planting time the foUoviring season. The tubers may be planted every year for fifteen or twenty years in 
succession ; but they flower best from their fifth to their twelfth year. They are sometimes raised from seed in 
this country ; but the flowers are very far inferior to those produced by tubers imported from Holland. "When, 
however, it is wished to raise seedlings, the seed should be sown as soon as ripe, or in August ; rubbing it 
previously to sowing to divest it of its downy covering, or mixing it with a little sand. The seed being of the 
kind called caryopsides, that is, invested in its carpel, is a long time before it comes up. When, however, it 
does so in spring, the young plants are sufl^ered to grow till the usual time for taking up the tubers, which will 
have formed, and should be dried and put in paper bags like the old ones. If the young plants form any flower- 
buds the first year, they should be taken off without being suffered to expand, as they would weaken the roots ; 
but the second season they may be permitted to flower. 
A. coronaria is a native of Greece, of Italy near Rome, of Asia Minor, and of the south of France, always 
growing in moist places. It was introduced into England before 1796, and has been a favourite garden flower 
ever since. 
OTHER SPECIES OF ANEMONE. 
A. CAROLINIANA Wall. ; A. TENELLA Pursh. 
A small and delicate plant, with small flowers, which are purplish on the outside. Introduced in 1824. 
A. BIFLORA Dec. 
Flowers yellow, white, or purplish, always produced in pairs ; a native of the Levant. 
A. CiERULEA Dec; A. URALENSIS; A. BALDENSIS Lin.; A. FRAGIFERA Mun. 
Flowers blue or white, and generally produced in pairs ; root fusiform. A native of Siberia ; but also found 
in Switzerland and other mountainous parts of Europe, and in North America, on the Rocky Mountains. Intro- 
duced in 1798. 
A. FARVIFLORA Mich.; A. CUNEIFOLIA Juss.; A. TENELLA Sanks ; A. BOREALIS Bich. 
Flowers small, white ; carpels woolly, forming a large globose head when ripe, which is more ornamental than 
the flower. Introduced in 1824. This species is a native of North America, between the Rocky Mountains 
and the Arctic Sea ; and it is interesting as being the most northern plant found by Dr. Richardson in his 
journey vrith Captain Franklin in search of the North-west passage. 
A. LANCIFOLIA Pursh. 
A native of Pennsylvania and Virginia, always growing in boggy soil. The flowers are white, and always 
have only five sepals. The leaves are ternate, and the segments lanceolate. The carpels are oval, and the styles 
short and hooked. Introduced in 1823. 
A. TRIFOLIA Lin. 
A native of France, strongly resembling the preceding species, except that there are frequently six sepals, and 
the stamens are often more than a hundred in number. 
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