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they may be alternate and opposite as in Clematis, 
upon an ascending or creeping stem. 
The sepals are variable, however, between three 
and six, and are frequently like petals as in the Monk’s 
Hood. There may also be more than five petals, as 
in Pilewort, in which I have frequently found ten or 
more, or they may be abortive as in Goldielocks, 
which has one wanting or eaten away. I have found 
perfect forms of this pretty species, however, with 
all the petals. It is at the base that the honey is 
stored in the nectary. 
Most of these plants are terrestrial, but the Water 
Buttercups are submerged or floating, and Marsh 
Marigold is a marsh plant. A few have only one 
cotyledon, and in many ways they resemble mono- 
cotyledons. 
THE Woop ANEMONE (Anemone nemorosa). 
There are few counties in Great Britain where 
this lovely flower does not grow. So common a 
flower, with so sensitive a nature, exposed to sun or 
cold is naturally popular, and it has been immorta- 
lised in song. And, indeed, a bed of the delicate 
Wind Flower in a sylvan glade, into which the 
shafts of golden light are shot but fitfully in spring, 
as the shadows chase each other across the April 
sky, is a sight that lingers in the memory. 
In its favourite habitat, a wood, this beautiful wild 
flower is to be found more generally in those shady 
nooks which are protected above by a plentiful 
