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Anemone (Seventy species comprised)

Of the seventy species comprised in this genus, the great majority inhabit the temperate, frigid, or mountainous regions of the Northern hemisphere; a few are found in South America and South Africa, and one is a native of Australia. To those described on pp. 74-8, Vol.I., the following should now be added:

A. baikalensis (Baikal). fl. snow-white inside, suffused rose pink outside. May to July. h. 9in. to 15in. Allied to A. sylvestris. A. Fanninii (Fannin's).* fl. pure white, fragrant, 3in. to 4in. in diameter; sepals twelve to thirty, linear-lanceolate, acuminate; pedicels 8in. to 10in. long or more; scape hairy, 2ft. to 5ft. high. June. l. sub-orbicular, 8in. to 24in. in diameter, coriaceous, five to seven-lobed, velvety above, villous beneath, the lobes toothed; petioles hairy, 1ft. to 2ft. long. South Africa. A giant Anemone. (B.M. 6958; G.C.n.s., xxv., p. 433.) A. polyanthes (many-flowered). fl. white, 1in. to 2in. in diameter, in simple or compound umbels, often very numerous; sepals broadly obovate or oblong. May. l. 2in. to 4in. in diamter, orbicular-cordate, five to seven-lobed, but rarely below the middle; lobes coarsely and irregularly crenate; petioles very stout, 4in. to 10in. long. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Himalayas. (B. M. 6840.) A. stellata fulgens (shining). A variety differing from the type in its vermilion-scarlet flowers.