SEPTEMBER. 
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ANEMONE ANGULOSA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
The genus Hepatica of Dillenius lias been one of those unlucky ones over 
whose fate uncertainty has long hung. Now accepted, now rejected, it had, 
on the whole, rather made advance in the estimation of the botanist, till the 
discovery in Kashmir, at no very distant date, of Anemone Falconeri completely 
set aside the chief distinction that had been relied on for their discrimination. 
The claims of Hepatica to be received as a bond fide genus had in the main 
rested on the position of its three calyx-like involucral leaves, which were set 
close below the flower ; but in the Anemone to which allusion has been made, 
these leaves, exactly like those of Hepatica, are separated some half an inch 
or more from the true flower, and thus the distinguishing character between 
the two genera becomes altogether invalidated. 
The group of species with which the name has become associated are 
amongst the most beautiful of spring flowers. The common species, generally 
called Hepatica triloba, but more strictly Anemone hepatica, itself yields several 
varieties with blue, pink, or white single flowers, and both blue and pink 
double ones. These forms are not uncommon in gardens, and, besides them, 
we sometimes hear of a double white, which, however, ghost-like, seems to 
vanish when sought. 
Those who are familiar with these old ITepaticas—and there are, doubtless, 
few of our readers but know something of them—will see by a glance at the 
annexed figure how much finer a subject for decorative purposes we have in 
this Hepatica angulosa, or, as it should rather be called, Anemone angulosa. 
It is a native of Hungary, and is one of the many beautiful hardy spring 
flowers which the Messrs. James Backhouse & Son, of York, have been fortunate 
enough during the present year to bring under the notice of the London public. 
The Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society awarded it a first- 
class certificate ; and a double-first, if it could have been given, would not have 
shown too high an appreciation of its merits. We are indebted to Messrs. 
Backhouse for the opportunity of figuring it. 
The habit of this species is exactly that of the allied A. hepatica, but the 
plant itself, as well as its parts, are all at least twice the size of that. Thus, 
the leaves are fully 3 inches broad, three-lobed, but having the lobes coarsely 
and rather deeply crenato-dentate. The flowers are upwards of 1% inch across, 
of numerous oblong lance-shaped spreading sepals, and of a fine clear greyish 
blue, set off by the array of numerous black anthers, which surround the tuft 
of yellowish styles. 
The Anemone angulosa, first described by Lamarck in the “ Encyclopedic 
Methadone,’’ is, doubtless, one of the finest hardy plants of recent introduction. 
M. 
CHRONICLES OF A TOWN GARDEN—No. XX. 
Slowly, as if each minute part of their own laws should be faithfully 
observed, the Japan Lilies unfolded their blossoms—beautiful as they are, 
with the bright crimson spots on their frosted petals, like drops of gore on the 
silver shield of a knight errant, yet these varieties of Lilium lancifolium must 
now yield the palm to the magnificently-arrayed L. auratum. A kind friend 
sent me a plant in bud, and knowing, as I do, how carefully the advent of every 
flower is now watched, in the expectation that they will develope some new 
form of the variety already apparent among them, I watched the first appearance 
K 
