70 The Romance of Wild Flowers 
the face of the flower should be turned in that 
direction. 
There is one other native species of Anemone, and 
that is the Pasque-flower (Anemone pédsatilla), so 
called because in other days country people 
used to employ its juices in staining Easter 
egos (Pasque eggs). But it is more interest- 
ing to us because its flowers show some 
advance upon those of the Wood Anemone. 
Its leaves, which are cut up into many very 
slender divisions, do not properly develop 
\.,. until after flowering. The flower -stalk is 
~ stouter than that of the Wood Anemone, and 
clothed with fine silky hairs. Its six sepals 
) are also silky, and of a dull purple tint. The 
Pasque-flower carpels, instead of ending in a short simple 
foae: style as do those of the Anemone, have long 
feathered styles, and in the ripe achenes these 
are an inch and a half long, and help in the dispersion 
of the seeds. Now, there is no doubt that the deeper 
colour of the sepals has made the Pasque-flower 
attractive to a larger number of insects than 
patronise the Anemone, for the former has found it 
possible to do without some of its stamens as pollen- 
producers, and has actually converted the outermost 
row into nectaries for the greater encouragement of 
its winged patrons! The honeyless Anemone, to 
make sure of getting fertilised, ripens its anthers and 
stigmas together, but the Pasque-flower with its 
honey-bait is more certain of visitors, and can 
arrange for cross-fertilisation by discharging its 
pollen before its stigmas are mature. 
There is a small group of three native plants called 
