Anemone
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Anemone. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a-nem'o-ne, a genus of plants belonging to the buttercup family. The name is Grecian, signifying wind. In Grecian mythology the anemone was said to have sprung from drops of blood from the foot of Venus who had stepped on a sharp thorn. There are many anemones or windflowers. Some of them have become beautiful inmates of the flower garden. Anemones are without petals, but have a colored calyx that looks like a corolla. The sepals can hardly be told from petals. Our windflower comes early in the spring and is often called the wood anemone. It is found everywhere in our hardwood region. Another anemone, the pasque flower, with its purplish sepals and silky involucre, is the earliest flower of the prairies from Illinois and Missouri far to the north and westward. The seeds have long feathery tails. Other anemones, coming in the summer, ripen cylindrical heads of cottony seeds. See Aconite ; Buttercup ; Larkspur ; Marsh Marigold 2026 Editor's Note: The flower lent its name to a creature the article doesn't mention: the sea anemone , the flower-like animal of tide pools whose partnership with the clownfish — the 'Nemo' fish that shelters unharmed among its stinging tentacles — became one of the best-loved facts in nature. (Ed: BR 2026-06-19)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a genus of plants belonging to the order ranunculaceæ or crowfoots. A. coronaria and hortensis are common garden flowers. In zoölogy, it is a popular name given to various radiated animals which present a superficial resemblance to the anemone, but really look more like the chrysanthenum or some others of the compositæ. The anemone, meaning the sea-anemone, is A. mesembryanthemum, called also the bendlet; the snake-locked anemone is the sagartia viduata, and the plumose anemone is the actinoloba dianthus. instrument for