2 2 ANEMONE NEMOROSA„ WIND-FLOWER, OR WOOD-ANEMONE. 



species seem to delight to grow in places exposed to wind. The 

 present species, however, grows in rather sheltered places, and 

 has thus obtained the name of "Wood-Anemone," as well as 

 " Wind-Flower." 



The classical allusions we have referred to have been used 

 to advantage by poets, who take our flower as the represent- 

 ative of one forlorn and forsaken, and occasionally introduce 

 it in connection with the rugged banks which now and then 

 line the "course of true love." Herbert Smith refers to 



"The coy Anemone, that ne'er uncloses 

 Her lips until they 're blown on by the wind " j 



and Dr. Darwin, in the fanciful " Botanic Garden," has the same 

 story in mind when he says, — 



" All wan and shivering in the leafless glade, 

 The sad Anemone reclined her head ; 

 Grief on her cheek had paled the roseate hue. 

 And her sweet eyelids dropped with pearly dew." 



The fancy that the flowers of the Anemone have turned pale 

 from a happy pink is well based on the varying tints of the 

 flowers. They are sometimes found of a deep rosy hue. The 

 tendency to vary is very marked. Some of the European 

 species furnish the beautiful garden Anemones, and there is little 

 doubt that care in selection and seed-sowing might result in 

 producing as varied colors in the American as in the European 

 flowers. The American flowers would have the additional 

 charm of fragrance, as a bunch of our species has a delicate, but 

 delicious perfume. 



If the ancients had known a little more than they did, they 

 might have done poetic justice to the wrongs of sweet Miss 

 Anemone by making her cold remains, after her death by 

 Boreas, work to the injury of the whole race of gods and god- 

 desses, for the juices of the plant are very dangerous when 

 taken internally; they are said to be useful in a certain class of 

 immoderate hemorrhages, but are too dangerous in overdoses 



