IS Anemone quinquefolia.
from various states in the Union. The result is, that I see no reason
to alter my opinion expressed on this species in the “ Compendium
Flora Philadelphicse,” several years ago; and that opinion goes to
confirm the correct decision formed of this plant by Muhlenburg. It
differs specifically from the description and figures of A. nemorosa
of Europe, and also from specimens of the foreign plant which I have
examined.
The genus Anemone has its derivation from «•'/*«') the wind, from
the old notion that the flowers of this genus do not expand except
when the wind blows, or because the plant grows in situations much
exposed to the wind. Hence a common name is wind-flower. There
are nearly forty species which principally belong to Europe, ten are
natives of this country—and some are found in Barbary, the Levant,
Siberia, Japan, and South America.
Fig. s. Represents the plant of its common size, about an inch of
the root being cut off by the line of the plate.
