MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 9 



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

 and wafts them away. Rapidly the fruit is formed ih a thimble- 

 Hke head, which presently bursts and is seen 10 contain many 

 white woolly seeds. The leaves are very deeply cleft. 



ALPINE ANEMONE 



Anevione Driimmondii. Crowfoot Family 



Stems : slender, three to ten inches high from tufted rootstocks. 

 Leaves : on long petioles, ternate, leaflets deeply lobed. Flowers : of five 

 to seven sepals, silky-villous outside ; style slender, glabrous. Fruit : 

 achenes densely villous. 



The Alpine Anemone has a larger flower and thicker stalks 

 than A. nmltifida ; it also grows higher up on the mountains, 

 and may be found close to perpetual 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. nmltifida. 

 The flower is rather like a white buttercup, and is usually 

 shaded with pale blue on the outside. The centre is yellow 

 and green. 



FEW-FLOWERED ANEMONE 



Anemone parvifiora. Crowfoot Family 



Stems : erect, very slender. Leaves : basal ones long-petioled, three- 

 parted, the broad wedge-shaped divisions obtusely lobed or crenate, those 

 of the involucre nearly sessile, similarly lobed. Flowers : small, of oval, 

 very obtuse sepals. Fruit globose ; achenes densely woolly. 



The smallest and most delicate of all the mountain Anemo- 

 nes, it 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. 



