303 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



3. Long-fruited Anemone 



A.cylindrica is a slender, silky-stemmed plant, with a whorl 

 of involucral, 3-divided leaves half-way up the main stem, from 

 which spring 2 or 3 naked flower stalks, or perhaps a single 

 peduncle having a second whorl of smaller, cut leaves. Plant 

 about 2 feet high, with greenish-white sepals. 



These two species are very similar. Attention to their foliage 

 will enable one to distinguish between them. 



4. Wind-flower. Wood-anemone 



'\ " The coy anemone, that ne'er uncloses 



Her lips until they're blown on by the wind." 



Herbert Smith. 



Anemone nemorbsa (shaken by the wind). — Family, Crow- 

 foot. Color, white, sometimes striped or tinted with blue or 

 pink. Leaves, from the root, and 3 on the flower stem, form- 

 ing an involucre above the middle. Leaflets cut, the lateral 

 in one variety 2-parted, oblong in general outline, on long 

 petioles. Time, April, May. 



Petals, none. Sepals, 4 to 7, like petals. Stamens, many. 

 Pistils, 15 to 20, forming a head of carpels, with hooked beaks 

 in fruit. Flower, single, large, open,*i inch broad, slightly 

 nodding 4 to 9 inches high. 



A delicate little plant, one of the first to appear in spring. It 

 grows from a thin, elongated rootstock. Sterile plants also 

 come up, consisting of a single root -leaf. It is a sure proof 

 that winter is gone when the first wind-flower appears in pro- 

 tected nooks, looking bravely out into the new world, daring late 

 frosts and winds, secure in that very fragileness which bends to 

 the strong blasts. 



Percival refers to a blue anemone when he writes : 



" Beside a fading bank of snow, 

 A lovely anemone flew, 

 Unfolding to the sun's bright glow 

 Its leaves of heaven's serenest hue." 



