ANEMONE CORONA'RIA. 
POPPY ANEMONE. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCUI.ACE.fl5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Levant. 
9 inches. 
Feb. to May. 
Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No. 103. 
Anemone is derived from the Greek a nemos, 
wind; as Gerard says, after Pliny, because “the 
flower doth never open itself but when the wind doth 
blow.’* As this is not quite correct, at least with 
the Anemones of our days the appellation is sup- 
posed to have arisen on account of their flourishing 1 
in exposed and windy situations. 
The term coronaria, from the Latin corona, a 
crown, or garland, appears to have been adopted in 
consequence of the use the ancients made of these 
flowers in forming such ornaments. 
The ancient fabulists ascribe to this flower a very 
high birth. They tell us that Venus, in her grief 
for the death of Adonis, mingled her tears with his 
blood, and thence sprung the first Anemone. 
The Poppy Anemone is well calculated for the 
general flower garden, is of easy cultivation; and 
being raised from seeds, which yield flowers of in- 
numerable varieties of tint, pleasures are continu- 
ally excited by the anticipation of new and superior 
beauties ; such as may well induce the poet to exclaim 
‘ See ! yon anemones their leaves unfold, 
With rubies flaming, and with living gold.’ 
