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2.— PULSATILLA PATENS MiU. THE SPREADING PASQUE FLOWER. 
Specific Character. — The flower rising beforo the full expansion 
of the leaves. Involucre large. Radical leaves palmately cut. 
Flower erect, spreading, hairy ; sepals lanceolate. 
SvHoNYME. — Anemone patens Lin, 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 1994 ; and om fig. 2 in Plate 2 ; both 
of the cream-coloured variety. 
Variety. — P. p. 2 ochroleuca G.Don, Flowers cream-coloured. 
Description, &c. — A very liandsome species, with large, widely spreading flowers, which rise from the ground 
before the leaves, and expand before the radical leaves are fully unfolded. The involucre is very large and cup- 
shaped. The other leaves rise frotti the root round the stem, and they are palmate, with the footstalk attached to 
the centre. The flowers are large, and either purple or cream-coloured ; the former being considered the species, 
and the latter the variety. The plant is a native of Siberia. It grows about a foot high, and the flowers, like 
those of all this genus, appear in early spring. The name of Pasque-flower, indeed, intimates that these flowers 
appear about Easter. Like all the other species, it prefers a dry soil and an open situation. When the seeds are 
sown it is customary to rub them together between the hands to divest them of their feathery tails, which get 
entangled with each other, so as to render it difficult to separate the seeds. Some gardeners mix the seeds \'nt\\ 
a little fine sand before sowing for the same purpose. 
3.— PULSATILLA VULGARIS Mill. THE COMMON PASQUE FLOWER. 
Synonymes. — Anemone Pulsatilla Lin.; A.pratensis Withering; 
A. colliua Sol. 
Engravings. — Eng. Bot. t. 51 ; 2d edit. t. 777, and our fig. 5 in 
Plate 2. 
Varieties. — P. v. 2 rubra; P. rubra Dale ; A. p. ! rubra Lam. 
Plant dwarf, flowers erect, spreading ; sepals blunt. 
P. V. 3 lilacina; A. p. 7 lilacioa Dec; A. intermedia Schul.; 
A. longipetala Schl. Flowers lilac, nodding. 
P. V. 4 Dahurica ; A. p. j8 Dahurica Dec. Plant dwarf, very 
hairy; flower erect, sepals oblong and pointed. 
Specific Character. — Flower solitary, nearly erect ; segments six, 
pointed, hairy. Leaves bi-pinnate, leaflets deeply cut, with linear lobes. 
Involucre deeply cut into numerous linear segments. 
DESCRIPTION, &c. — It is this flower that has obtained for the genus the general name of Pasque-flower, firom 
its flowering at Easter, which was formerly called Pasque in England, as it still is Paques in France, from the 
Paschal lamb having been eaten by the Jews at that season. 
The Pasque flower is common all over Europe in dry, sandy, or chalky soils ; but it is never found unless the 
soil be quite dry, and the situation open. It will not live in a close or smoky atmosphere. The flower has rather 
a singular effect, from the long silky hairs that cover its deep purple sepals on the outside ; particularly in Italy, 
where it is very abundant, and where the heat of the climate gives intensity to its colour. The whole plant is 
acrid, and will raise blisters ; and the juice of the flowers is said to dye paper green. 
4.— PULSATILLA ALPINA Spreng. ALPINE PULSATILLA. 
Synonymes. — A. alpina Lin.; A. baldensis Lam.; A. burse- 
riana ffort. ; A. myrrhidifolia Fill.; A. apiifolia Wild.; A. sul- 
phurca Cam. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 2007; and ovrfiff. 1, in Plate 2. 
Varieties. — These are very numerous ; but they differ chiefly in 
the size and colour of the flowers, which are white, yellow, or purple. 
The most distinct are P. a. fiavescens, and P. a. micrantha. 
Specific Character. — Leaves bi-ternate ; segments deeply cut. 
Involucre large, of the same form as the leares. Flower quite erect ; 
sepals elliptic, spreading. 
Description, &c. — Perhaps no species varies more than this does. Sometimes the flowers are as large as 
those of the largest Anemones grown by florists, and at others they are as small as those of the wood Anemone. 
The colour is always white or yellowish, though the backs of the sepals are sometimes purple ; and the leaves, 
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