kingdom, to which Linnaeus has given the 
fpecific name of temulum^ for no very obvi- 
ous reafon. I do not even know the word, 
Pliny, I remember, ufes temulentia for drunk- 
ennefs. But we have no bufinefs with this 
fpecies at prefent, as it will not flower till 
July. 
Look at your watch. Not quite noon. 
Then we have time fufftcient to mount the 
Hills, where we (hall find an elegant little 
plant now in bloom, of which my friend 
Relhan has given an engraving rather too 
much expanded, but an accurate defcrip- 
tion. 
There it is, in great abundance. You Ane- 
have no difficulty in pronouncing it to ntttte ' 
be of the Clafs Polyandria and Order 
Polygynia. You fee it has no calyx, and 
the petals are 6: therefore it mud be a 
fpecies of Anemone, of which genus there 
are,,in this kingdom, but four fpecies, 
and in Cambridgeshire only two, viz. 
A. pulfatilla and A. nemorcfa. The firft 
of thefe is particularly diftinguifhed by 
its jagged involucrum, its flalk being 
8 or 10 inches high, its purple flower, 
and foliis bipinnatis. The flowers in 
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