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In the other division of the Anemones the seeds are 

 either like a woolly Strawberry or resemble those of our 

 own Wild Anemone. A. Baldensis and A. sylvestris have fine 

 large flowers ; the former is rare, and is found only on the 

 high mountains of the southern Alps ; A. sylvestris, whose 

 drooping, unopened buds have been thought to resemble 

 Snowdrops, is less rare, and grows in lower and more shel- 

 tered spots. A, ranunculoides, Mr. Robinson tells us, is 

 "like a Wood-Anemone done in gold," from its bright 

 yellow flowers. A. narcissiflora (Fig. 5) differs from the 

 rest of its family by growing in a kind of umbel of from 

 three to five flowers on a stem from six to nine inches high. 

 The individual white flowers are not large, and, as they are 

 surrounded by their involucre, they have somewhat the 

 appearance of three or four Strawberry-flowers tied together 

 at tlie end of a long stalk. The leaves are roundish and 

 very much lobed. Found commonly in Alpine pasturages, 

 and on the heights of the Jura, Maderaner Thai, &c. 



6 and 7. Ranunculus.— Buttercup. 



(PLATE VI.) 



Buttercups and Daisies, 

 Let us sing their pi'aises. 



And well may they be sung, if beauty of form and great 



variety and abundance of growth are a title to praise. It 



