128 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



amain," and how '' gentle flowers " were born to bloom at 

 every drop that fell from her lovely eyes : 



" Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the rose, 

 And where a tear has dropped, a Wind Flower blows." 



They are short-lived flowers; the wind blows them open 

 and wafts them away. Rapidly the fruit is formed in a 

 thimble-like head, which presently bursts and is seen to con- 

 tain many white woolly seeds. The leaves are very deeply 

 cleft. 



Anemone Dnimmondii, or Alpine Anemone, has a larger 

 flower and thicker stalks than A. mnltifida; it also grows 

 higher up on the mountains, and may be found close to per- 

 petual snow. The leaves are set in a circle round the stalk, 

 about two inches below the blossom, and also grow up from 

 the base of the plant. They are not so delicate or deeply 

 cut as those of A. rnidtifida. The flower is rather like a 

 white buttercup, and is usually shaded with pale blue on the 

 outside. The centre is yellow and green. 



Anemone parz'Mora, or Few-flowered Anemone, the 

 smallest and most delicate of all the mountain Anemones, 

 is usually found growing in the thick forests, single and 

 solitary. The flowers are white, veined and shaded, with 

 blue at the base of the sepals. 



WHITE CLEMATIS 



Clematis ligusticifolia. Crowfoot Family 



Stems: somewhat pubescent. Leaves: quinate to quinate-ternate, 

 leaflets oblong, acute, incisely lobed and trifid. Flowers: in paniculate 

 corymbs. Fruit: achenes pubescent. 



The White Clematis has open clusters of rather small 

 flowers composed of five thin silky petaloid sepals, oblong 

 lobed leaves, and handsome plumose seed-heads. This 



