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blc variable anemone; common double and variegated 
■fcarlet; red and purple; and variegated of thefecolours ; 
betides fmgle of divers forts and colours. He fays, that 
the bed ftar-anemones coine from Brittany, where they 
raife yearlv many fine forts. This fpecies alfo was culti¬ 
vated here by Gerard in 1507. 
13. Anemone pulnaata: leaves heart-fliaped, fublobate; 
calyx fix-leaved, coloured. This, having a fix-parted ca¬ 
lyx, connefts the hepaticas vx itli tlie anemones. Clufius 
found it in Portugal by the Tagus. The leaves are large; 
the corona confifts of ten or more petals, yellow without 
and orange within. 
IV. Anemonoides with a naked flower, and taillefs feeds. 
14. Anemone Sibirica : (tem one-flowered, involucre leafy, 
obtufe. Found in Siberia by Gmelin. 
15. Anemone fylveftris, or large white-flowered wood 
'anemone: peduncle naked; feeds rottndifh, (baggy, awn- 
lefs. This approaches near to our wood anemone, but 
the feeds of it are round and hairy; the flower is large 
and white, but having little beauty is feldom planted in 
gardens; yet there is in the flowers, efpecially before they 
expand, a Ample elegance, fomewhat like that of the fnow- 
drop, which affords a pleafing contrail to the more (howy 
flowers of the garden. Parkinfon notices its creeping 
roots, its large white flowers Handing on the tops of the 
flower-flalks, which fometimes grow two together, but 
moll commonly (ingle ; the leaves on the (talk, he obferves, 
are more finely divided than thofe of the root, and its feeds 
are woolly. It is a native of many parts of Germany. 
Linnaeus obferved it once in Sweden ; it is found alfo in 
A Mace and Siberia. It flowers in May, and ripens its 
feeds in June. 
16. Anemone fragifera : peduncle naked; feeds round- 
ifli, woolly, awnlefs, gafhes of the leaves acute, lanceolate. 
Native of Carinthia. 
17. Anemone Virginiana, or Virginian anemone: pe¬ 
duncles alternate, very long; fruit cylindric; feeds (bag¬ 
gy, awnlefs. It is a native of North America, and flow¬ 
ers-in May and June. 
18. Anemone decapetala, or ter.-petalled anemone : (lem 
one-flowered, flower tcn-petalled, leaves ternute, lobate, 
radical. Native of Brazil. 
19. Anemone Pennfvlvanica, or Pennfylvanian anemone: 
(lem dichotomous, leaves fefliie ftem-clafping, the lowed 
ternate, trifid, gaflied. This is fo like the dicholovta, that 
a perfon might ealily be deceived : but the leaves at the 
firft dichotomy of the (tem are not two, hut three: fefliie, 
more veined, lefs horizontal. It is a native of Canada 
and Pennfylvania, and was cultivated in 1766 by Mr. Jas. 
Gordon. 
20. Anemone dirhotoma: flem dichotomous; leaves 
fefliie, all oppoiite, flem-clafping, trifid, gaflied. It flow¬ 
ers about Midfummer, and ripens its feeds. It is a na¬ 
tive of Canada, and Siberia; from whence it was fent 
growing, by David de Gorter, phydeian in ordinary to the 
emprefs of Ruflia, into Sweden, in the year 1760. 
21. Anemone trifolia: leaves ternate, ovate, entire, 
ferrate; flem one-flowered. A native of France, Cur- 
niola, and Siberia; growing in woods, and flowering at tiie 
end of April. 
22. Anemone quinquefolia: leaves quinate, oval, fer¬ 
rate; flem one-flowered. Native of Virginiaand Canada. 
23. Anemone nemorofa, or wood anemone: feeds acute, 
leaflets gaflied,'flem one-flowered. The root of the wood 
anemone is perennial; the height of the whole plant from 
five to ten inches. It grows in woods, among btifiies, and 
in hedges, in mod parts of Europe, and fometimes in paf- 
tures. In many of our woods the ground is almoft cover¬ 
ed with tire flowers in March, April, and May. In fine 
clear weather the bloflbms are expanded, and become fo 
creCl as to face the fun; hut, in the evening, and in wet 
weather, they are clofed and hang down. It is acrid, and 
in fome degree poifonous; according to Linnaeus, cattle 
brought from open to woody paflures, and eating of this 
plant, have been affected with the bloody .flux, and have 
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made bloody urine. The paper in which dried fpecitnens 
of this plant are preferved being flained brown, it is pro¬ 
bable that it may be employed as a dye. When the flow¬ 
ers become double, the wood anemone is cultivated by 
the gardeners; and, were the fame pains taken with it as 
with the foreign, anemones, it might probably he much 
improved in the eye of the florid. The leaves have fre¬ 
quently a parafitical plant growing on their backs, which 
deceived Bobart and the great Dillenius, who took it for 
a fern, and figured it as fuch in the third edition of Ray’s 
Synopfis. This error, though detected more than fixty 
years ("nice, lias been lately revived, and lias given occa- 
(ion to Mr. Relhan to afeertain that this appearance is oc- 
caiioned, not by eggs of an inferit as fome fuppofed, but 
by the cecidium fij'cum. 
24. Anemone Apennina, or mountain wood anemone: 
feeds acute, leaflets gaflied, petals lanceolate, numerous. 
It flowers in April, at the fame time as the wood ane¬ 
mone, with which it lias fome affinity in its foliage; but 
the root is much thicker and more knobby, the petals 
much narrower, more than twice as many, and of a light 
pleafant purplifli blue : when they firfl expand, the outiide 
lias a rich purpiifli tint, which is loll when the flowers 
have been fome time expofed to the fun. Native of the 
Apennines, near Rome;’and of fome few places in Eng¬ 
land ; as lord Spencer’s park at Wimbledon, near Harrow- 
on-the-Hill, in a wood by Luton Hoe in Bedfordfliirc, 
and near Berkhamftead in Hertfordfliire. It is a very or¬ 
namental plant, fuitabie to the flower-garden or planta¬ 
tion; and loves a light loamy foil. 
25. Anemone ranunculoides, or yellow wood, anemone : 
feeds acute, leaflets gaflied, petals roundifh, flem mofily 
one-flowered. This-diffeps from the wood anemone in 
having a yellow corolla, two petals alternately outer, and 
two inner, and one having one fide within and the other 
fide without the next petal; whereas that has three outer 
and three inner petals ; it differs alio in the peduncles be¬ 
ing accompanied with two leaflets, the latter of which is 
fnrniflied with three at the bafe. It flowers a day or two 
earlier than the other. This fome times lias two flowers 
on a flem, the peduncles villofe, fliort, fo that the flower 
fcarcely rifes above the leaves. It grows wild in Sweden, 
Denmark, Switzerland, France, Germany, Auftria, Car- 
niola, Italy, Siberia, and Geneva ; flowers in April. With 
us it has been found near King’s Langley in Hertfordfiiire, 
and near Wrotham in Kent. 
26. Anemone narciffiflora, or narciflus-flowered ane¬ 
mone: flowers umbelled; feeds Oval-deprefled, naked. 
It grows wild on the mountains of Italy, Switzerland, 
Auftria, and Siberia. Introduced in 1773 by John earl of 
Bure. 
27. Anemone fafciculata: flowers-umbelled, collected, 
leaves multifid. This very much refembles the laft, fo 
that Linnaeus doubts whether it be a diftinCt fpecies, and 
Haller thinks that it is only a variety. It was firfl obfer¬ 
ved by Tournefort in the Levant, and is found in the 
mountains about the lake Baikal. 
2S. Anemone thaliCtroides, or meadow-rue-leaved ane¬ 
mone : flowers umbelled; ftem-leaves Ample, verticillate ; 
radical leaves biternate. It grows wild in Virginia and 
Canada.- 
Propagation and Culture. The plants of this genus are 
moftiy hardy perennials, and may be increafed both by 
feeds and by the roots. 
The hepaticas are feme of the greateft beauties of the 
fpring. The flowers are produced in February and March 
in great plenty, before the green leaves appear, and make 
a handfome figure in the borders of the pleafure-garden, 
efpecially the double forts, which commonly continue a 
fortnight longer in flower than the (ingle ones, and the 
flowers are much fairer. The (ingle forts produce feeds 
every year, whereby they are ealily propagated, and alfo 
new flowers may be that way obtained. '1 he belt feafon 
for fowing the feeds is in the beginning of Auguft, either 
in pots or boxes of light earth, which (hould be placed fo 
