ANEMONE 
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Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate ///. ( a ) Flowering branch, (b) Head of achenes. (c) Achene. Isle of Wight 
(E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, iioi; Reichenbach, 2086, as C. banatica. 
Perennial, climbing shrub. Rhizome freely suckering. Stem straggling, somewhat hairy, weak, 
held up by the cirrhose petioles. Laminae pinnate ; pinnae 3 — 5, stalked, ovate, more or less 
cordate at the base, margin coarsely and irregularly toothed or rarely entire, acute, almost glabrous, 
up to about 6 cm. long and 4 ’5 broad. Flowers with a faint almond-like odour, about 2 cm. in 
diameter; July to early September. Perianth with 4 segments. Sepals yellowish brown, oblong, 
densely hairy on both surfaces, rather thick, caducous, about 10 mm. long and 3 broad. Stamens 
00 , about as long as the sepals, conspicuous, pale yellow. Ovary green, minute ; style long, with 
long silky hairs, about 2 cm. long in fruit ; stigma yellowish, minute. Achene compressed, reddish 
brown, about 3 mm. long (excluding the persistent style) ; September and October. 
In the whole of southern and south-central England, Clematis vitalba is indigenous and locally very abundant. In 
northern England and in Scotland, it is not native, though it is fully naturalised here and there, as, for example, on the 
banks of the river Tay, near Dunkeld, in Perthshire. In Ireland, it is more difficult to be certain of its natural range : 
according to Praeger ( Irish Top. Bot. p. 1), it is only self-sown in most of its recorded stations; and in some others it has 
merely run wild from gardens. 
Hedgerows, scrub, open places in woods; from Cornwall and Kent northwards to Anglesey 
and Norfolk, common in some of the western counties, local in the eastern ; introduced in the 
north of England and Scotland, as in Perthshire; here and there in Ireland, except in the north; 
nearly always on calcareous soils. 
Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe (ascending to 1050 m.), southern Europe; 
northern Africa. 
Subtribe VI. ANEMONINAE 
Anemoninae nobis; Anemoneae DC. loc. cit ., in sensu stricto. 
For characters, see page 114. 
British genera of Anemoninae 
Genus 9. Anemone (see below). Geophilous herbs. Leaves radical. Bracts 3, involucroid, 
simple or compound, sepaloid or not. Sepals 4 — 20, petaloid. N ectar-leaves o or (in section Pul- 
satilla) sometimes rudimentary. Achenes 00 , with feathery and persistent styles. 
Genus 10. t Adonis (p. 118). Stem-leaves present. Bracts 5 — 8, involucroid, sessile, petaloid. 
Sepals 3 — 20, petaloid, longer than the bracts. Nectar-leaves o. Achenes 00, with non-feathery 
styles. Seed pendulous. 
Genus 11. Thalictrum (p. 118). Stem-leaves present. Bracts not involucroid. Sepals 4 — 10 
(4 — 5 in the British species), small, petaloid, caducous. Filaments long, showy. N ectar-leaves o. 
Anthers projecting beyond the other parts of the flower, filaments coloured. Achenes few, styles 
not feathery. 
Genus 9. Anemone 
Anemone [Tournefort Inst. 275, t. 147 (1700) emend.;] L. Sp. PI. 538 (1753) et Gen. PI. ed. 5, 241 
(1724); Prantl op. cit. 61 (1891). 
Perennial, acrid herbs. Leaves compound, mostly radical, rarely a pair of opposite stem-leaves. 
Inflorescence solitary. Peduncle long. Bracts in a whorl of 3 to each flower. Pedicel very variable 
in length. Perianth monochlamydeous, sometimes apparently dichlamydeous owing to the shortness 
of the pedicel (as in A. hepatica), blue, red, or white, rarely yellow ; segments free, 4 — 20, imbricate, 
often hairy. Nectar-leaves usually absent (rudimentary in some species of the section Pulsatilla). 
Stamens 00 , outer ones sometimes hemi-petaloid. Carpels 00 , stigmas either naked or feathery. 
Achenes co , sessile. 
About 90 species ; cosmopolitan. 
British sections of Anemone 
Section I. Anemonanthea (see p. 116). Pedicels long. Stamens all perfect. Styles glabrous, 
not lengthening much in fruit. 
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