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PotVANBJU LlNKat 
COM pleat anemone 
anemone coronaria. 
\ NEMONES are too familiar for defcription : and after what has been Hiid rclat- 
mg to the IcosANDROUS clafs, there need few words to explain the charafler of 
the PoLVANDRiA ; to which this belongs. The Filaments arc numerous, as in the Plants of 
that divifion ; but they rife from the receptacle, or head of the Stalk ; not from the edges 
of the Cup, or body of the Flower. 
Science, or hiftory demand no more on this head : therefore we have opportunity un- 
der a favourable inllance, to trace that great article, the progrcillon of nature, in form- 
ing the doublenels of Flowers, in a new courfe. Me h.ave fecn Icvcral w.ays in which 
that chanee is brought about in various kinds ; and this will add one more : for tho- 
the methtS be t!ie fame in its original, it differs greatly, as the effed is wrought from 
various parts ot Flowers. ‘ 
In tl'.e Tulip, we fee the Filaments fpread into Petals, and form the doublenefs of the 
flower, and from the vaft number of Filaments in the Anemone, when fiugle, and the 
multitude of new Petals in the double one, it would be natural to fuppofe they had alfo 
the fame origin in this ; But it is much otherwife. We open here into a new courfe of 
nature; and the doublenefs of this Flower, and of fome others of like kind, is form'd 
from parts we have not yet feen ferve that purpofe. That this new courfe of nature may 
be the more clearly underftood, 1 have given the Flower of the natural wild Anemone, 
native of jEgvpt, and other parts of the Eaff, with thofe fucceffive forms it wears from 
a different culture. 
The Strudlure of the common, natural, or fingle Anemone is this. 
At the fummit of the Stalk, there is a flight flefliy fwelling of a paler colour ; this 
is called the receptacle of the Flower ; and its feveral parts rife from that receptacle in 
the following Order. Firft, the body of the Flower, compofed of flx Petals in two 
Scries, three outer and three inner, as in the Tulip: the three outer ferve as a Cup, the 
three inner being more delicate. Next within thefe, rife from the fame receptacle, a 
multitude of Filaments crowned with large yellow buttons. ’I he infertion of ihcfe on 
the receptacle, fliews the Plant to be of the Polyandrous clafs ; not ot the Icofandrous. 
Above thefe Filaments, the receptacle runs up into a conic form ; and is cover’d all the 
way with naked Rudiments of Seeds. 
When the Flower becomes, by culture, femi-double, the three inner Petals form that 
doublenefs, each fplitting flatwife {as the new Petals of a T ulip) into two, or into three ; 
and thus the Flower, rnftead of fix, has nine or twelve Petals. But in the compleat 
double Anemone, the change is much more wonderful. The outer Petals remain as in 
the femi-double Flower ; the Filaments arc converted into peculiar oblong fubftanecs, ac- 
quiring a fine colour ; and every rudiment of a Seed upon the furface of the receptacle, 
forms an additional Petal. Thefe make the inner cluftcr, and perfedV the doublenefs of the 
Flower. 
In other kinds, we may promote doublenefs by the ufe of fuch manures as peculiarly 
fwell the flefliy labflancc of the Stalk whence the Filaments rife. In this we are to en- 
large the pith or central fubflance : for from that rife the Rudiments of Seeds. Such a 
manure, and a length of time before the Plant is fuffer'd to flower, will produce tills ele- 
gant change. 
-Vemone foliU ridicali’aus rernato :iccompofitis involucro foliofo. 
