ANEMONE 
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Section II. Pulsatilla (p. 1 1 7). Pedicels distinct, at least in fruit. Outer stamens sometimes 
imperfect and nectiferous. Styles persistent, lengthening and becoming covered with long and con- 
spicuous silky hairs in fruit. 
Section I. ANEMONANTHEA 
Anemonanthea DC. Syst. i, 196 (1818); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 43 (1S93); Eu-Anemone Syme 
Eng. Bot. i, 11 (1863) as a subgenus. 
For characters, see p. 115. 
British species of Anemonanthea 
1. *A. apennina (see below). Pedicels erect after flowering. Segments of the involucre 
markedly stalked. Sepals blue, narrower than in the two following species. 
2. # A. ranunculoides (see below). Pedicels curved after flowering. Segments of the 
involucre almost sessile. Sepals yellow, pubescent on the outside. 
3. A. nemorosa (p. 117). Pedicels much curved after flowering. Segments of the involucre 
markedly stalked. Sepals usually white and more or less tinged with purple, more rarely rose, violet 
or blue, glabrous. 
I. ^ANEMONE APENNINA. Plate 112 
A. geraniifolia Gerard Herball 304 (1597); Ranunculus nemorosus flore purpureo-caeruleo Parkinson Theatr. Bot. 
325 (1640); Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 259 (1724). 
Anemone apennina L. Sp. PI. 541 (1753)!; Smith FI. Brit. 581 (1800); Syme Eng. Bot. i, 12 (1863); 
Rouy et P'oucaud FI. France i, 43 (1893). 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1062; Curtis FI. Lond. ii, in ; Reichenbach Icon. t. 47, fig. 4645; Syme Eng. 
Bot. i, t. 10. 
Camb. Brit. Ft. iii. Plate 112. (a) Plant in flower, (b) Radical leaf. ( c — d ) Flowering scapes. ( e ) Fruit. 
(/) Achenes (one enlarged). 
Exsiccata : — PI. Ital. Set., vii, 258; Porta et Rigo {Iter II I tali), vii, 258; Todaro, 606. 
Perennial. Rhizome stout. Shoot glabrous or nearly so, 7 — 22 cm. high. Ground-leaves 1 — 3, 
biternate, leaflets pinnate, margin coarsely and rather bluntly toothed. Peduncle arising close to the 
leaf. Bracts 3, stalked, leaf-like, segments pinnatifid, coarsely and bluntly toothed. Pedicel nearly as 
long as the peduncle. Flowers about 3 - 5 — 5^0 cm. in diameter; May. Sepals blue, paler outside, 00, 
ligulate, glabrous. Achenes in a subglobose head, glabrous ; beak only about a quarter as long as the 
rest of the achene. 
More or less naturalised in woods and copses, as in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, 
Bedfordshire, Shropshire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire, and Banffshire. 
Southern Europe ; Asia, eastwards to Persia. Naturalised in western and central Europe, northwards to 
Denmark. 
2. ^ANEMONE RANUNCULOIDES. Plate 113 
A. nemorum lutea Gerard Herball 306 (1597). 
Anemone ranunculoides L. Sp. PI. 541 (1753)!; Smith FI. Brit. 582 (1800)!; Syme Eng. Bot. i, 13 
(1863); Rouy et P'oucaud FI. France i, 44 (1893). 
leones : — Smith Engl. Bot. t. 1484 ; FI. Dan. t. 140; Svensk Bot. t. 405 ; Reichenbach Icon, iv, t. 47, fig. 4643. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate iij. {a) Plant in flower, {b, c) Flowering scapes, (d) Fruit, (e) Achenes (one 
enlarged). Hort. (S. H. B.). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 3; 3 bis ; 302; v. Heurck et Martinis, vii, 301; Herb. FI. Ingric ., i, 5. 
Perennial. Rhizome elongate, rather stout. Shoot glabrous, about 10 — 25 cm. high. Ground-leaves 
with long petioles ; laminae compound, with 3 — 5 main segments. Peduncles slender, arising at some 
distance from the leaf. Bracts leaf-like, ternate ; segments ternate, almost sessile, deeply 3-pinnatifid, 
margin coarsely and rather bluntly toothed. Pedicels shorter than in A. nemorosa. Flowers 1 — 2, about 
2 — 3 cm. in diameter ; May. Sepals yellow, usually 5, rarely 6 — 8, elliptical, overlapping at the base, 
slightly hairy on the outside. Carpels 00 , pubescent, stigma as long as the ovary. Achenes hairy ; 
beak long, slender. 
Naturalised in copses and shrubberies, in Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Shropshire, Leicester- 
shire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Perthshire. 
