Anemonopsis
(from anemone, and opsis, resemblance; flowers like those of the Anemone). ORD. Ranunculaceoe. A handsome and remarkable hardy herbaceous perennial, not unlike Anemone japonica, but smaller. It thrives in any light soil. Propagated by seeds and divisions of the root-stock in spring. A. macrophylla (large-leaved).* fl. in loose racemes; sepals about nine, concave, the outer three purple, internally pale lilac; petals twelve, in many rows, one-third the length of the sepals, linear-oblong. July. l. large, biternate, coarsely toothed, glabrous. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Japan, 1869.