20 SWISS FLOWERS. 



Columbine is frequently found in dry and mountainous 

 pastures. 



Rarely, a plant somewhat akin to this is met with^ 

 Atragene Alpina, which really very much resembles the old- 

 fashioned blue Clematis of our gardens. The Saleve, and 

 Mont Andey, near Bonneville, are mentioned as places 

 where it may be found. It was a great pleasure to see it 

 climbing up the rocks at Sils, Engadine. 



3, 4, and 5. Anemone. 



(PLATES III., IV., and V.) 



Who does not know the Anemone ? The cultivated kinds 

 form one of the bright early ornaments of our gardens, 

 while the wild white ones, their heads gracefully drooping, 

 or opening fully their starry blossoms, mixed with Primroses 

 and Dog-violets, carpet our woods in May. It is wonderful 

 to find scarlet Anemones as common all about the coast of 

 Nice and Cannes as the Wood-Anemone is with us. Their 

 colour is so brilliant that the large nosegays of them, so 

 easily gathered, actually give a glow to the room in which 

 they are placed. It was only the other day that, coming 

 accidentally upon a plant which had been long dried, we 

 were surprised at the size and colouring of the specimen. 

 A. stellata, perhaps after all the most prett}'^ of its family. 



