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Show MEADOW ANEMONY, OR PASQUE FLOWER. ANEMONE PRATENSIS. Class XIII. Polyandria. Order VI. Polygynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Calyx none: Petals six to nine: Seeds many. Srec. Cuan. Peduncle involucred: Petals reflexed at their apex: Leaves bipinnate, RANUNCULUS ACRIS. Class XII¥. Polyandria: Order V1. Polygynia. Essexr. Gun. CHAR: Calyx five-leayed: Petals five; with a mellifetous a scale at each unguis, DESCRIPTION. Tins plant rises six or eight inches. Stemerect, furnished near the top with a laciniated involucre. Leaves radical, bipinnate, Segments short, linear, of a glaucous green colour. Petals six, of a beautiful purplein the inside, the outside covered with soft hairs, reflexed. UPRIGHT MEADOW CROWFOOT. The seeds retain their styles, which appear like downytails. ee : DESCRIPTION. Tus plant rises two feet. Lower leaves on upright pedincles; trifid, subdivided into smaller laciniated lobes, marked underneath with small prominent reticular veins. Flowers of a fine yellow; as if glazed. HISTORY. MEDICAL USE: Native of Germany, and flowers in May. The leaves have been pounded and applied as a poultice, wheti MEDICAL USE. This medicine resembles thelast in active powers, and, besides the diseases mentioned in that history, has been tried with success in several of the most incurable diseases of the eyes; as amau- rosis, cataract, and opacity of the cornea. with the last. Sree, Cuar. Calyx spreading: Peduncles smooth: Lower leaves tripartitemultifid: Upper leaves linear: Dose the same 4s it produces a vesication like a blister. Rheumatic affections have often readily given way to its use. It has been used ins ternally for worms; and it may be remarked, that if a decoctiom of this plant be poured on ground containing worms, they wilt be forced to rise from their concealments, and may be takenin tbundance for fishing with, although we cannot but ¢condeme such bait as a wicked and barbarous practice. 20 |