GOLDIELOCKS II 
This is in allusion to their brief flowering period. The Wind 
Flower was held sacred to Venus. In some countries people have 
an aversion to them, the air being said to be tainted with them, those 
inhaling it being said to be sick on this account. 
The species of Anemone are all acrid. The Pasque Flower, an 
allied species, was till recently retained in the Pharmacopeeia, but it has 
no such remedies as described by Gerarde and Culpeper. It is usually 
sold by weight, the roots, like ginger, being employed. It was held by 
the older writers to be injurious to cattle. A species in Kamschatka was 
utilized to poison the tips of arrows, the juice being applied proving fatal. 
EssENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
3. Anemone nemorosa, L.—Sepals 4-20, petaloid, involucre of three 
leaves or bracts, carpels tipped with persistent styles, keeled, rootstock 
creeping, achenes downy. 
Goldielocks (Ranunculus auricomus, L.) 
No deposits have as yet yielded achenes of this plant, It is dis- 
tributed over the Arctic and Cool Temperate Zones, in Arctic Europe, 
N. and W. Asia, to the Himalayas, Goldielocks is absent from 
Monmouth, and in Wales only occurs in Glamorgan, Denbigh, and 
Anglesea. It is absent from S. Lincs and the Isle of Man. In Scot- 
land it is not found in any of the following counties:—Dumtfries, 
Wigtown, Peebles, Selkirk, Linlithgow, Banff, Elgin, Westerness, 
Main Argyll, W. Highlands or N. Highlands, or Northern Isles. In 
the Highlands it is found at an altitude of 1600 ft., and in S. and W. 
Ireland it is rare. 
The Goldielocks is a shade-loving hedgerow and woodland plant, 
which appears to delight in sandy soil where also some humus is 
present, and clusters in patches of a yard square beneath the shelter of 
a bank. There it forms a rich contrast with the surroundings with its 
yellow (rarely perfect) petals and delicate foljage. It is fond of ground 
where there are inequalities of the surface, as well as banks, on which it 
often grows. 
This is one of the terrestrial Crowfoots, with a smooth, shiny stem, 
with divided leaves, having the lower leaves broadly lobed and the upper 
more divided, with an erect flowering stem, the flowers being central, 
and the general shape is pyramidal, as in most plants with radical 
leaves on long stalks, rounded or kidney-shaped, and more or less 
leafless flowering stems. A feature of this species is the variation in 
the type of the leaves at the base. 
