Anemone Nemorosa. W ood Anemonv. 
ANEMONE Limati Gen. PI. Polyandkia Polygynia. 
Cal. o. Petala 6-9. Sem. plura. 
Rati Gen. 15- Hebbk semine nudo folyspekmje. 
ANEMONE Nemonfa feminibus acutis, foliolis incilis, caule unifloro. Lumatt. Sjt/1. Vegetal, f. 4*5- 
Flora Suecic. p. 190. 
ANEMONE feminibus nudis, caule unifloro, foliis radicalibus nullis, caulims quinque-partitis, lobis 
tripartitis inicifis. Haller. Hijl. Helv. 2. p. 64. 
ANEMONE Nemorofa. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 383. n. 660. 
ANEMONE fylveftris alba major. Bauhin Pin. 1 76. 
ANEMONE nemorum alba. Gerard emac. 383. 
RANUNCULUS nemorofus albus fimplex. Parkinfon. 325. Rail Syn. 259, Wood Anemony. Hudfon 
FI. Angi. 208. Oeder Fl. Dan. tab. 549. 
RADIX teres, per terram oblique repens, craflitie pen- 
nae coracis, externe caftanea, intus alba, fragilis, 
fibrillis fufcis praedita. 
CAULIS teres, fimplex, triuncialis circiter, purpuraf- 
cens, pilis mollibus vcftitus, trifoliatus. 
FOLIA terna, fubtus hirfutula, tripartita, . lobis incifis, 
lateralibus fere ufque ad bafin divifis. 
PETIOLI breves, vaginantes. 
SCAPUS uniflorus, nutans. 
CALYX nullus. 
COROLLA : Petala fex aut feptem, oblongo-ovata, 
alba, fubtus incarnata, patentia, fubemargi- 
nata, fig. 1. 
STAMINA : Filamenta numerofa, inaequalia, ca- 
pillaria, filiformia, alba: x^nthere flavae 
fubrotundae, biloculares, compreflae : Pollen 
album, fig. 2, 3. 
PISTILLUM : Germina in capitulum colle&a, ovata, 
villofa : Styli fubulati, incurvati: Stigma 
fimplex, fig. 4, 5. 
SEMINA plurima, nuda, oblonga, liirfuta, mucrone 
incurvo, fig. 6, 7, au£t. 
ROOT round, creeping obliquely under the furface of the 
earth, the thicknels of a crow quill, externally 
chelnut colour’d, internally white, brittle, 
furnifhed with brown fibres. 
STALK round, Ample, about three inches high, pur- 
plifh, covered with foft hairs, and bearing 
three leaves. 
LEAVES growing three together, flightly hairy under- 
neath, formed of three fegments ; the fide 
lobes divided nearly down to the bafe. 
FOOT-STALKS of the leaves fhort, and forming a 
kind of fheath. 
FLOWER-STALK fupporting one flower, and droop- 
ing at top. 
CALYX wanting. 
COROLLA : fix or feven Petals, of an oblong oval 
fhape, white, underneath purplifh, fpreading, 
flightly notched in at top, fig. 1 . 
STAMINA: Filaments numerous, unequal, very 
fmall, thread fhaped and white : Anthers 
yellow, roundifh, of two cavities, flattifh. 
Pollen white, fig. 2, 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germina collected into a little head, 
oval, villous : Styles tapering and bending 
downwards : Stigma Ample, fig. 4, 5. 
. SEEDS feveral, naked, oblong, hairy, the top bending 
downwards, fig. 6, 7, magnified. 
FROM the obfervations of feveral Authors, the Wood Anemone may be confidered as a poifonous plant. 
According to Linnjeus, Cattle which have been brought from open to woody paftures, and. have eaten of this, 
plant, have been affe&ed with the bloody Flux, and have made bloody Urine. Haller informs us, that in 
Kamtfchatka, the inhabitants are faid to poifon their Arrows with a fpecies of Anemone, the wounds from 
which produce certain death. . 
The Wood Anemone produces its flowers early in the Spring. In molt of our Woods the ground is nearly covered 
with them, in the months of April and May. In fine clear weather the bloffoms are expanded, and become fo erett 
as to face the fun but in the evening, and in wet weather, they are clofed and hang down, whereby the delicate 
parts of the flower are fecured from injury. 
The chief variation obferved in it, is the colour of its Petals, which ate fometimes quite white : and ac- 
cording to Merret, they occur in Devonjhire wholly red : both forts, particularly when double, are cultivated 
by the Gardeners : and were the fame pains to be taken with it, as with fome of our foreign Anemonies , it 
might probably be very much improved in the eye of the Florift. 
The leaves of divers plants, particularly the Euphorbia Heliofcopia, are fubjeft to be covered with fmall yel- 
low dots, the effe&s of fome Infett : this alfo fometimes happens to the Wood Anemone. InC. Bauhine, we 
And it mentioned under the name of Anemone nemorofa Jlerilis foliis pun blatis. This variety is fomewhat un- 
fortunately Agured in Dillenius’s edition of Ray’s Synopjis, and deferibed as a Fern, to which it Certainly 
lias no pretenfions, as is evident from the irregularity of its dots. 
