ANEMO NE PALMATA. 
PALMATED ANEMONE. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDR1A. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANCNCULACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Portugal . 
9 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1790. 
No. 145. 
Why this family of plants received the name of 
Anemone, is not easy to determine. All parties 
agree that it originated in the Greek anemos, wind ; 
hence the appellation wind-flower, by which it is 
usually known. The term may be applied in va- 
rious ways to different species, as the blowing about 
of its downy seeds ; the easily agitated flowers ; the 
bleak situation which some species prefer, &c. and 
in addition to these the ingenious botanist may sug- 
gest others. Palmata, from the Latin, hand-shaped : 
a term applied to such leaves as are partly divided 
into several segments or lobes. 
This handsome species of Anemone was not gen- 
erally known to our old English botanists, though 
Gerard both mentions and delineates one that has 
been considered synonymous. Its identity is not, 
however, sufficiently clear, and it may be thought 
rather curious, that this ingenious old author should 
have given the figure of a plant which, we may con- 
clude, was drawn wholly from his informant’s verbal 
description. In reference to it he says,“ but my selfe 
can giue you no certaine knowledge of the plant ; 
bicause I did never see it.” 
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