POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Anemone. 6 71 
cated : Capsules many, with awns or tails formed by the 
permanent styles. 
A. pulsatil'la. (Flower solitary, nearly upright: involucrum in 
deep linear segments: petals six, erect: seeds with feathery 
tails : leaves doubly pinnate, cut, with linear lobes. Sm. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Land.- — Ludw. 119. E.)— E. Bot. 51 —FL Dan. 153— Relh. at 
p. 208— Matth. 620— Civs. i. 246. 1— Dod. 433. 1— Lob. Ohs. 149. 2, and 
Ic. i. 281. 2— Ger. Em. 385. 1— Park. 341. 2— Kniph. 1— H. Ox. iv. 26. 
row 1. 1— Pet. 40. 9— -Ger. 308. 1 and 2, and 309-— Lonic. i. 83. 2— J. B. 
hi. 409. 2 and 3. 
Bloss. pendulous. Petals violet-coloured, (spear-shaped, downy outside. 
All the leaves from the root hairy. Boot rather woody. Stem six or 
eight inches high, downy. In reducing A. pratensis of Sibthorp to this 
species, we submit to the authority of Dr. Williams, Professor of Botany 
at Oxford, and follow the example of Smith, Relhan, &c. Indeed the 
difference in the size of the flower, and the petals being reflexed 
instead of straight, is scarcely sufficient to constitute even a permanent 
variety. E.) 
PasqueFlower. {A. pratensis. Sibth. With. Erl. 4, but not of Linn. E.) 
High pastures, Gogmagog Hills, Hildersham, Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. 
Bernack Heath, near Stainford; Leadstone Hall, above a lake in a place 
called the Close, near Pontefract; Cornbury Park, near Charlbury, 
Oxfordshire. Tulip Hills, near Lexham, Norfolk. Mr. Pitchford. Can- 
ham Heath, near Bury; and Devil’s Ditch, Newmarket. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Above Sir J. Paul’s, Rodborough, Gloucestershire, common. 
Mr. Baker. P. April—May.* * 
A. nemoro'sa. (Flower solitary : petals six, elliptical: seeds pointed, 
without tails: involucrum of three ternate or quinate, stalked, 
lobed and cut, leaves. Sm. E.) 
( E. Bot. 355. E.)— Curt. — Kniph. 1— FI. Dan. 549— Fuchs. 161— J. B. iii. 
412. 2— Lonic. i. 163. 4 — Trag. 95. 1. 1— Ger. 306. 2— Wale. — Clus. i. 
247.1 —Dod. 435. 2—Lob. Ohs. 384. 2, and Ic. i. 673. 2— Ger. Em. 383. 2 
—Park. 325. 1 —H. Ox. iv. 28. 10— Pet. 40. 9— Ger. 307. 3 and 4. 
Petals three inner and three outer. Linn. Plant six to eight inches high, 
smooth, excepting the leaves. Stem-leaves doubly three-fold; leafits 
egg-spear-shaped, variously jagged or lobed; veins slightly hairy. Pe¬ 
tals white, full half an inch long, the outer tinged with purple at the 
noticed in Ovid. Met.; and hence the poetical allusion of Sir W. Jones: 
Youth, like a thin Anemone , displays 
His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.” 
Or for a more interesting origin we may cite the beautiful epitaph of Bion to Adonis: 
“ A» ot’i row K v9ep£tav' AttoAeto xaXog ’'aSwvi?. 
Aaxpvov a Tlatpiri rdcrov sx^ist, dtraov” Aticovig 
AlfAot %££<* ra 8s 7 t avru nor) ylyvsrou oIvjVi. 
A ly.a. po8ov Ti'xTet , Ta 8 e Saxpva tow ’ Avs/j.ojvow E.) 
* (Sometimes admitted into gardens. The leaves and flowers taken inwardly excite vo¬ 
miting. Haller. Corrosive and rubifacient. The inspissated juice is recommended in 
amaurosis and paralysis; externally for ulcers, herpetic eruptions, &c. Swediaur. The 
juice of the petals stains paper green, and is used in some countries to colour the Paschal 
eggs, whence supposed the English name ; or rather, according to Gerard, derived from 
the season of flowering, about Pasque time, or Easter. E.)—Goats and sheep eat it. 
Horses, cows, and swine refuse it. 
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