ANEMONE ALPENA. 
ALPINE ANEMONE. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACE/C. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Austria. 
6 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1658. 
No. 741. 
The application ofthe Greek word, anemos, wind, 
to the present genus of plants is not very satisfac- 
torily explained; it is, hov/ever, not unfrequently 
difficult to fix on any single circumstance which 
will equally apply to all the species of a genus. 
The wonderful diversity of exhaustless nature gives 
the botanist strong claims to indulgence, when 
his classification exhibits imperfections. 
Anemone Alpina has a wide geographical range, 
being found in the middle and northern extremities 
of Europe, and on the Rocky Mountains of North 
America; and exhibits a greater diversity of form, 
within the limits of a single species, not only than 
any other Anemone, but than most other plants. 
The present handsome variety is known in the gar- 
dens as the Anemone Popeana, and was, we be- 
lieve, originally introduced to Great Britain by 
those liberal-minded nurserymen, the Messrs. Pope 
of Handsworth, near Birmingham. 
It grows in the open borders, requiring little or 
no care, and ripens seed freely, from which finer 
plants are usually raised than those which are pro- 
pagated by division of its tubers. 
186, Don’s Syst, Bot. 1, 16. 
