APRIL AND MAY. 



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flower beside the road, and as late, too, as the mid- 

 dle of May. This was among the mountains, where 

 the altitude is apt to 

 retard the advance of 

 spring. The blossom is 

 frail, with five or more 

 white sepals (not petals) 

 sometimes sufl'used with 

 a delicate crimson pink. 

 The leaves are character- 

 istically wedge-shaped, 

 and on this account 

 there is no excuse for confusing 

 the plant with Thalictrum anerao- 

 noides, or rue anemone. The 

 leaves of the latter are like those 

 of the meadow rue. 

 Eue Anemone. The dainty rue 



anemone is often 



confused with the 



anemone just de- 

 scribed. A glance at my two 

 drawings will at once discover 

 the wide difference between the two little plants. 

 Besides the difference in leafage, A. nemorosa is a 

 one-floivered plant, while A. thalictroides bears quite 

 a cluster of blossoms having six or more white se- 



Anemonella 



thalictroides, 

 or Thalictrum 

 anemonoides. 



Anemonella Thalic- 

 troides. 



