Anemone Anemone, Fischer ex DC. Anemone Anemone, L.

5. A. uralensis Fischer ex DC. View in CoL , Prodr. 1: 19 (1824).

Like 4 but flowers reddish, purplish, yellow or white; epidermal cells of upper surface of perianth-segments mammillate. Open coniferous woodland. • C. and S. Ural (55° to 58° A). Rs (C).

A. uralensis is intermediate between A. ranunculoides and A. caerulea DC. from Siberia, and may perhaps be of hybrid origin.

6. A. apennina L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 541 (1753).

Like 1 but rhizome tuberous; leaves pubescent beneath, primary divisions stalked, acute; flowers blue (or white, var. albiflora Strobl ); perianthsegments 8-14, pubescent beneath; anthers pale yellow or white; head of achenes erect. • 5. Europe. Al Bu Co Gr It Ju Si [Da].

7. A. blanda Schott & Kotschy View in CoL , Öesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 4: 129 (1854).

Like 6 but leaves glabrous beneath, primary divisions subsessile, more or less obtuse; perianth-segments usually more numerous, glabrous; head of achenes nodding. • S.E. Europe. Al Bu?Cr Gr Tu. Perhaps only subspecifically distinct from 6.

8. A. reflexa Stephan View in CoL in Willd., Sp. Pl. 2 (2): 1282 (1799).

Rhizome slender. Flowers less than 1 cm in diameter. Perianthsegments 5-6, 1-1-5 mm wide, greenish-white, deflexed parallel to the peduncle. E. Russia (near Perm'). Rs (C). (A. Asia.)

Sect. Omalocarpus DC. Achenes strongly compressed, often winged, not woolly. Style short, hooked.

9. A. narcissiflora L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 542 (1753).

20-40 cm, pubescent. Stock stout. Leaves deeply palmately divided; petioles long. Cauline leaves sessile, deeply cut, segments narrowly linear. Inflorescence umbellate, with 3-8 flowers. Flowers 2-3 (-4) cm in diameter, white, sometimes pinkish outside; pedicels 3-4 cm. Perianth-segments 5-6, obovate. Anthers yellow. In = 14. Mountains of S. and C. Europe; Ural. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (N, C, W).

Variable in E. Europe and still more so in Asia, and probably divisible into a number of subspecies or closely related species, but a thorough review of the whole complex is needed.

A. laxa (Ulbr.) Juz. in Komarov, Fl. U.R.S.S. 7: 738 (1937), from W. Ukraine, is very like 9 but has straight (not curved), leaf-segments. A. biarmiensis Juz. , loc. cit. (1937) from N. E. Russia is also very closely related to 9, but has 3 (not 5) stalked (not sessile) primary divisions of the leaves.