ANEMONE NEMOROSA. 
NAT. CLASS,—DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,— RANUNCULACEÆ. ART. 
CL ASS,—POLYANDRIA ; ORDER,—POLYGYN IA. 
This is a perennial species, with a fleshy creeping 
rhizoma, producing fibrous roots, and throwing up leaves 
at intervals, the branches terminating in the form of 
single flower stalks, which rise above the ground early 
in Spring. These flower stalks bear an involucrum, 
composed of three leaves, closely resembling tbose 
which are thrown up by the rhizomata, in their mode 
of subdivision, but with shorter pétioles. The radical 
leaves, as the latter are termed, are ternately divided 
into deep lanceolate acute segments, which themselves 
are trifid, and the lobes deeply toothed. The perianth 
consists of six elliptic sepals, commonly white, tinged 
