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A N E M O N E apeunina.
Blue Mountain Anemone.
POLYANDRIA Polygynia,
G en. Char, Cal. none. Petals 5— 9, or more. Seeds
feveral.
Spec. Char. Seeds pointed, without tails. Stalk
tingle-flowered, furnithed with a three-leaved,
ftalked, leafy involucrum. Petals lanceolate,
numerous.
Syn. Anemone apennina. Linn. Sf. PI. 762. Sm.
FI. Brit. 581. Hudf. 237. With. 500. Hull. 12a.
Abbot. 119. Curt. Lond.fafc. 6. t. 35.
Ranunculus nemorofus, flore purpuro-casruleo. Dill,
in Paii Syn. 259.
T H E place of our Anemone nemorofa is in all the groves of
Italy fupplied by this elegant fpecies, which is not, as its name
fhould imply, peculiar to the Apennine or any other mountains,
but rather to lowland woods. We find therefore no difficulty
in believing it really wild in thofe various fpots,
within a few miles of London, where botanifts for a century
paft have remarked it. Our fpecimens grew at Wimbleton.
It flowers in April, and is perennial.
The root is rather thicker than that of A. nemorofa, and the
leaves, though variable in breadth, generally of a broader,
more rounded, and obtufe figure than in that fpecies. Each
leaf of the involucrum is fubdivided into 3, not 3, leaflets.
The flower is formed of about 12 or 16 narrow, lanceolate,
bluntifh, recurved petals, of a rich Iky-blue, hairy on their
backs. Stamina pale yellow. We have never obferved them
to be ehanged into petals.
This pretty plant may eafily be cultivated on a rather dry
light and loamy foil, and merits a place among the fpring
flowers in our gardens.