This is a very vigorous growing herbaceous perennial, of great beauty. It has the kind of compound, ternate lobed leaves, possessed by many of the Anemones, bat in this case they are large, and coarse, and unequally serrated on the margin. It grows two feet high, or more, and has purplish-red flowers, scarcely inferior to those of the Chrysanthemum, or the Poppy Anemone of the East: they are, indeed, not unlike a small semi-double Dahlia bloom, and are fairy as large as a small Dahlia. Its degree of hardiness is not yet ascertained, but it is expected to bear the severity of our winters, - and if so, will prove a roost valuable addition to hardy border flowers. It flowers in September and October; and was introduced by the Horticultural Society, who received it from their collector, Mr. Fortune, in 1944. Mr. Fortune met with it at Shanghae, the Japanese port of China.

According to Dr. Siebold, it inhabits damp woods on the edges of rivulets, on a mountain called Kissune, near the city of Miako, in Japan. It grows also at considerable ele-Tations on the mountains in the centre of Japan, whence Siebeld concludes thai it will bear the rigior of a continental winter. It is much cultivated by the Japanese for its beautiful flowers.

In the garden ef the Horticultural Society, it has hitherto been kept in a pot, in a cool green-house: this was, however, on account ef its scarcity, and for fear of losing it; and such treatment is by no means expected to be required. It will grew freely in any rich, light, loamy soil; and respires a considerable, rather abundant supply of water.

In the natural arrangement it ranks under Ranuncu-lacese; and in the Linnssan, under Polyandria poly-gynia. - Journal Horticultural Society