pasqueflower (paskflou"er)

A plant, Ane mone Pulsatilla, wild throughout Europe and 2 4312 in Siberia, also a garden-flower. It is a low herb with a woody rootstock, three deeply cut se ile leaves, with six dull violet-purple sepals very silky on the outside. Also called campana, dane - flower, and danesblood. American pasque-flower, Anemone patens, var. Nuttal liana, found from Illinois northwestward. The species is also found in the Old World. - Japanese pasque-flower, A. Japonica, a garden-flower in and from Japan, with rose colored or white blo oms.