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Show Release SAVERY B Phe Uae N DALY PSs OeN tuft of fhort threads in the centre. There is not that fingle and particular leaf at fome diftance under the flower, whichis feen in the pulfatilla ; but the leaves naturally fland in a regular order about the middle of the ftalk, three rifing together. In his Genera Plantarumit ftands feparate from Linneus places this among the polyandria polygy the pulfatilla ; but in his fucceeding wo: he has joined them, as we have obferved, under that article. The Englifh nameof this genus is wizd-flower ; but it is difufed, and we have adopted the Latin wordentirely. SRITITS HS Pe CLE $s. Anemone nemerum alba. ‘The root is thick, oblong, and creeps irregularly under the farface. While young, it is yellJowifh ; when older, of a redifh brown; whitifh within, furnifhed with many fibres, and of an auftere andvery acridtafte. The leaves that rife immediately from the root ftand on long flender footftalks, and are large and beautifully divided. The footftalk is purplith, and fomewhat hairy, and the divifions of the Jeaf large and indented. The ftalk is flender, weak, round, and eight inches high: Sr Tee)Se It is purplifh at the bottom, and green upwards. The leaves grow with regularity upon it. They are three : they all rife fromthe fame place, and ftand on moderately long footftalks. They are beautifully divided, and their footftalks are redifh, and fomewhat hairy. The place of thefe is a little higher than the middle of the ftalk; and fromthis it is again naked to the top. The flowerftands fingle onthe topof the ftalk. Tt confifts of fix oblong andlarge leaves, and has a tuft of threads with yellowheads in the centre. Its colour is ufual!y white, often redith, or with more orlefs of a purplith tinge. The feeds follow in a button orlittle clufter, which is rough, each feed having a hooked fhort beard. It is a native of England, and common in woods. It flowers in April. - Bauhine calls it Ranunculus phragmites albus rus. C. Bauhine, Anemone nemo- Its virtues are unknown; but there is fuch an obferve, that althoughthis errorftands in a work authorifed by his name, it is not to be charged to hisaccount. The defcription p. 124. and figure, tab. 3. of that work, are both addedbythe late Dr. Dellenius, botanical profeffor at Oxford, who faw the plant under the name of a fern in the collection of Bobart. He therefore was the perfonfirft impofed upon: FOR EDPGN The plant was given him, whether ignorantly or in wantonnefs, by a perfon whom he calls the Conjurer of Chal grave, 2.. Large-leaved Wood-Anemone. Anemonefoliis majoribus flore violaceo. The root is long, flender, irregularly thaped, and fpreads under the furface ; the.colour is adeep brown, and the tafte more fiery and acid than The root is large, thick, and of an irregular form. The leaves are numerous: they rife from feveral heads of the fame root, a clufter from each; and have footftalks of two or three inches in length. They are large, and in the whole of a fomewhat triangular form. “S- 2 CT Es, of a variety of colours, from the deepeft red with a purple tinge, to the paleft fleth colour, Aneimone tenuifolia flore rubente. HEflowerof the anemoneis large, and confifts of an uncertain number ofpetals with a great 1. White Wood-Anemone. “1 1. Fine-leaved red Anemone. ANEMONE. r He eee Ae IX. WIN EDF ILO W E_R, perv tort BRL SH Eachis divided into three principal parts, two at the bottom, and one at the end; andthefe are again deeply indented The ftalk is robuft, purplifh near the bottom, and ten inches high. Toward its middle there ftand three leaves, all growing from one place ; and they are fimall, and have nofoorftalks. hey refemble the feparate divifions ofthe lowerleaves. The flower is fingle, large, and of apale red: not rarely it is white, or very faintly tinged : but red is the natural colour. It is compofedof fix leaves, and has a large tuft of threads in the middle. The feeds ftand in a fmall naked button. It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in the fpring. C. Bauhine calls it Anemone tenuifolio himplicé ally from Con ntinople ; and it raifed to great beauty, and with great variety in our gardens, by being made double, and 2. Trifoliate Anemone. Anemone trifolia, The root is long and flender, and fpreads under the furface of the ground, dividing into fevera] parts, and fending up leaves from many heads. Its colour is brown, its tafte acrid, and it has many fibres. The leaves ftand three on each footftalk ; and are of an oval figure, pointed, ferrated, and without feparate footftalks ; adhering by their bafe to the top of the ftalk rifing from the root, which is three inches long, flender, and purplifh, The ftalkis fix inches high, round, weak, and purplith. The leaves are three on this ftalk. Theyall tife from the fame point, and have lone footftalks, each confifting of three other diftin& leaves, andin all refpeéts refembling thofe that rife immediately from the root. The floweris large andbeautiful. Itis white, with a bluth of purple, andrefembles the fower of the common wood-anemone. It is compofed of fix petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre. The feeds follow in a naked head. It is a native of France, and fome other parts of Europe, and flowers in {pring C. Bauhine calls it Anemonetrifolia fore alto. the laft. The leaves ftand on footftalks two inches long, and refemble thofe of the common woodanemone in form, fize, and divifion. The footftalks are purple at the bottom, and the leaves of a fhining green: The ftalk is five inches high, round, flender, purple toward the bottom, and weak. The leaves on the ftalk are three. They all grow from the fame fpot, aud have fearce any footftalk. They are large, and of a beautiful green. They are divided into three large parts, and then deeplyinto feveral fmaller. The flower ftands fingly at the top of the ftalk, and has no cup. Its colour is a deep violet blue ; andit has a great tuftofyellowthreads in the centre. The petals are oblong, and obtufe at the end. Their numberis uncertain, from fix to twelve or fifteen; in which later cafe the acrid tafte in every part ofit, that it would feem are very narrow. unfafe to try it internally. A [mall winged infect is apt to depofit its eggs on the underpart of the leaves ofthis fpeci and they fomewhat refemble the round dots in whichthe feeds of fern are lodged. Aleafofir thus decoratedis unluckily reprefentedin a figure in the Jaft edition of Ray’s Synopfis. The form, fubftance, and difpofition of thefe dots ought to This is a fort of doubling of the flower, but it is natural to it often without culture, and alfo to the common white wood kind. have informedthe boranift they were not feeds, It is a juftice we owe the memory of Mr. Ray to Mentzelius calls it Rauunculus numerofus flore caruleo foliis majoribus Apenini montes. The feeds ftand in a fmall roughclufter. It is a native of moft of the cold parts of Europe. I have found it in Charleton foreft, and in one of the places mentionedin Mr. Ray’s Synopfis, in Surry. G Er EN U PLEASANT) ws Dyk EXE. ADOWN1 S. flower of the adonis confifts of an uncer in numberof petals, with a tuft of extremely thort s in the centre: the feeds ftand n d in a longifh head; and the leaves are divided Linnzus places it among the 7 1 pol and he very juftly reduces to this genus that 1 plant commonly known by the name of jine-/ black hellebore. That is indeed a fpecies of adonis i confufion intoathe fcience whocalled it by the name of another and they wer ty of i nt to which it by no means belongs. Linnaus deferves praife, that he calls this a fpecies of and it were to be wifhed he had not admitted the real black hellebores into the fame clafs: DIViils8 1O.N.. OL BeBe LE loth, 1. Common Adonis. Adonis + The root is long, flender, whitifh, and furhedwithlarge fibres. The firft leaves are large, divided into a great numberof finall and fine fegments, and placed Iks of two inches long. Theyareof a r fubflance. into many at the tops of the ly large, and of a } 7b Onlens: number of petals, with a bundle of threads, haying deep purple heads, in the centre. The feeds ftand nakedina longifh clufter. It is common in fome parts of England in corn-fields, and flowers in Augult ; it is no where fo frequent as in Kent and Suffex. C. Bauhine calls it Flos adonis vulgo aliis eranothers Adonis, and Flos adonis. 1e floweris fometimes of a purplifh colour, and > leaves are fometimes longer than in the common ftate of the plant. Thefe are varieties only; hey have been defcribed as. feparate fpecies. has not been any where much ufed in meSome recommend an infufion of the ers in wine for chol ; but there are many etter remedies ; and this wants the authority of more experi nce E DIVI- |
