_Class and Order._

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

Cal. 0. Petala 5-9. Semina plura.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

ANEMONE _hortensis_ foliis digitalis, feminibus lanatis. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed Murr. p. 510._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. 2. p. 256._

ANEMONE Geranii rotundo folio, purpurascens. _Bauh. Pin. 173._

ANEMONE prima. _Dodon. Pempt. 434._

ANEMONE latifolia purpurea stellata sive papaveracea. The purple
Star-Anemone or Windflower. _Park. Parad. p. 204._

[Illustration: No 123]

We are more and more convinced, that in our eagerness, for novelties, we
daily lose plants by far more ornamental than the new ones we introduce;
the present, a most charming spring plant, with which the Gardens
abounded in the time of PARKINSON, is now a great rarity; its
blossoms, which are uncommonly brilliant, come forth in April, and, like
those of many other plants, appear to advantage only when the sun
shines.