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ANEMONES. 
a broad (hallow cup, the interior part of 
which Ihould contain a great number of 
long fmall petals, imbricating each other, 
and rather reverting from the centre of 
the blofTom; there are a great number of 
fmall {lender ftamens, intermixed with 
thefe petals, but they are fhort, and not 
ealily difcernible. 
The colours Ihould be clear and 
diftinfl when diverlified in the fame 
flower, or brilliant and ftriking if it 
confifts only of one colour, as blue, 
crimfon, or fcarlet, &c. in which cafe, 
the bottom of the broad exterior petals 
is generally white; but the beauty and 
contrail is conliderably increafed when 
both the exterior and interior petals are 
regularly marked with alternate blue and 
white, or pink and white, &c. ftripes, 
which in the broad petals Ihould not 
extend quite to the margin. 
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