The Narcissus-Flowered Anemone 



{ANEMONE NARCISSIFLORA) 



Many varieties of Anemone are found in Switzerland. 

 Not only have we the common English Wood Anemone 

 {A. nemorosa) of the early spring, and the much rarer Pasque 

 Flower {A. Pulsatilla) of our downs, but there is also the 

 white or yellow Alpine Anemone {A. alpina)y vAnch. forms 

 so marked a feature of the Alpine pastures in early summer. 

 Even in July and August, when most of the flowers have 

 faded, the feathery tufts of seeds of the Alpine Anemone 

 are still to be seen as the so-called "Chamois' beards." 



The Narcissus-flowered Anemone, here photographed, is 

 a widely distributed plant. It occurs on grassy slopes and 

 in pastures between 4000 and 7000 feet above the sea 

 level, and seems to prefer a limestone soil. The finely 

 divided leaves are well seen in the photograph. Unlike 

 every other species of Anemone found in Switzerland the 

 flower stalk bears not a single flower only but two to eight, or 

 even more, and at the point where the flower stalk divides a 

 green collaret or involucre is seen. The flowers are pure 

 white inside, and their external surfaces are often slightly 

 woolly and tinged with pink, especially in the bud. The 

 seeds have no feathery appendages like those of the Alpine 

 Anemone. The flowers are without honey. They are visited 

 by pollen-collecting insects, and should these fail will become 



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