The first leaues of this purple Anemone, which alwayes spring vp before Winter, (if the roote be not kept too long out of the ground,) are somewhat like the leaues of _Sanicle_ or Selfe-heale, but the rest that follow are more deeply cut in and iagged; among which rise vp diuers round stalkes, beset with iagged leaues as all other Anemones are, aboue which leaues, the stalkes rising two or three inches high, beare one flower a peece, composed of twelue leaues or more, narrow and pointed, of a bleake purple or whitish ash-colour, somewhat shining on the outside, and of a fine purple colour tending to a murrey on the inside, with many blackish blew threads or thrummes in the middle of the flower, set about a head, whereon groweth the seede, which is small and blacke, inclosed in soft wooll or downe, which flieth away with the winde, carrying the seede with it, if it be not carefully gathered: the roote is blackish on the outside, and white within, tuberous or knobby, with many fibres growing at it. _Anemone purpurea Stellata altera._ Another purple Starre Anemone. There is so great diuersity in the colours of the flowers of these broad leafed kinds of Anemones or Windflowers, that they can very hardly be expressed, although in their leaues there is but little or no difference. I shall not neede therefore to make seuerall descriptions of euery one that shall be set downe; but it will be sufficient, I thinke, to giue you the distinctions of the flowers: for as I said, therein is the greatest and chiefest difference. This other Starre Anemone differeth not from the former in leafe or flower, but onely that this is of a more pale sullen colour on the outside, and of a paler purple colour on the inside. [Illustration: 1 _Anemone latifolia flore luteo simplici._ The single yellow Anemone. 2 _Anemone latifolia flore luteo duplici._ The double yellow Anemone. 3 _Anemone latifolia flore purpureo Stellato._ The purple Starre Anemone. 4 _Anemone latifolia purpurea dilutior._ The pale purple Starre Anemone. 5 _Anemone latifolia flore miniato diluto._ The pale red Anemone. 6 _Anemone latifolia coccinea Cardinalis dicta._ The Cardinall Anemone. 7 _Anemone latifolia incarnata Hispanica._ The Spanish incarnate Anemone. 8 _Anemone latifolia Pauo simplex dicta._ The lesser Orenge tawney Anemone. 9 _Anemone latifolia flore carneo._ The carnation Anemone. 10 _Anemone latifolia Arantiaca siue Pauo maior._ The double Orenge tawney Anemone. 11 _Anemone Superitica siue Cyparissia._ The double Anemone of Cyprus. 12 _Anemone latifolia flore pleno albicante._ The double pale blush Anemone. 13 _Anemone Chalcedonica maxima._ The great Spanish Marigold Anemone. 14 _Anemone Cacumeni siue Persica._ The double Persian Anemone. † _Anemonis latifoliæ radice._ The roote of a great Anemone. ] _Viola purpurea._