OF ORNAMENTAL PERENNIALS. Q 
1.— HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS Lin. THE CANADIAN YELLOW-ROOT. 
ENORiTiNGs. — Bot. Mag. t. 3019, and t. 3232. 
Specific Character. — Lower leaves stalked, upper ones nearly sessile. Carpels ovate, acute. 
Description, &c. — The flower of this plant, though small, is brilliantly white ; and the leaves, and fruit, which 
looks like a large scarlet mulberry, are very ornamental. It is a native of Canada, where it grows in marshy 
places : and where the root, which is covered with tubercles that are yellow inside, is used both as a tonic 
medicine and as a yellow dye. It was introduced in 1759, but it is seldom seen in British gardens, as, if not 
kept very moist, it will not live through a summer. 
GENUS V. 
ADONIS Dill. THE FLOS ADONIS. 
Lin. Syst. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx of five sepals. Petals from five to 
fifteen. Stamens numerous. Caryopaides numerous, ovate, spiked, 
or hooked, and crowded on an elevated receptacle or torus. Embryo 
ovate. Cotyledons distant. Leaves deeply cut into numevous lincftr 
lobes. Flowers solitary, produced at the top of the stem or 
braQches. 
Description, &c. — Most of the plants belonging to this genus are annuals with crimson flowers, and hence 
the name, as they are fabled to have sprung from tlie blood of Adonis when he was wounded by the wild-boar. 
There is probably only one species of perennial Adonis, as, though four or five are marked in some catalogues, 
they appear to be all varieties of A. vemcUit, 
1.— ADONIS VERNALIS Lin. THE SPRING ADONIS. 
Synonymes. — A. Helleborus Crantz ; A. apennina Jacq. ; A. I A . v. 3 pyrenaica ; A. pyrenaica Dec. Stem branched. Radical 
Mentzeli Dec. ; A. sibirica Palrin. ; A. davurica Reichb. ; A. 
Ircutiana Dec. 
Engravings.— Bot. Mag. t. 134 j and onr Jig. 1 in Plate 1. 
Varieties. — A. v. 2 volgensis ; A. volgensis Stev. ; A. chaero- 
phylla Fisch. Stems branched. Sepals of the calyx pubescent on 
the outside. 
leaves on long stalks. Carpels smooth. 
Specific Character. — Radical leaves abortive, or reduced to 
gheatbing scales. Stem leaves sessile, and multifid with entire lobes. 
Caryopsides velvety ; hooked with the recurved styles. Roots black 
aud acrid. 
Description, &c. — A very showy plant, a native of the north of England, in valleys, and of the south on the 
sunny parts of mountains, flowering immediately after the melting of the snow. It flowers freely in English 
gardens in almost any soil, provided the situation in which it grows be open to the sun. It was introduced 
before the time of Parkinson (1629), as he speaks of it as the Great Ox-eye, or large yellow Anemone. It is a 
very showy plant, and well deserving of cultivation, though of late years it has been somewhat neglected from the 
great number of novelties that have been introduced into our flower-gardens. 
