ANEMONE. 
sun and wind, and there wedged in immovably between blocks of 
stone rammed down on either side. And, in any case, no trouble 
would be too great for the successful culture of this treasure—no, not 
even if we each had to murder an emperor for ourselves, and bury 
him deep in stony ground beneath big flagstones. But, for the 
moment, the Anemone is almost as rare in our gardens as the 
emperors of which it is the apt and imperial symbol. 
A. stylosa is a worthless and extremely rare species from Utah, and 
A. sphenophylla from Chile follows closely the ways of A. decapetala. 
A. tetonensis is an American, like a dwarf and rather improved 
and more purple A. globosa. 
A. tetrasepala, on the contrary, comes from the Western Himalaya, 
and is a fine handsome cousin of A. narcissiflora, but with only four 
divisions to the flower instead of five. 
A. trifolia brings us back to the European Alps and the relation- 
ship of A.nemorosa. Of this A. trifolia is a rather larger, stouter, more 
firm-leafed version, of the liveliest beauty. Its range is through the 
woods of South Tyrol and Carinthia, and all along the Ligurian Riviera. 
It often, as on the Cima Tombea, shares the upper slopes, just about 
the last copse-growths, with A. nemorosa, which it makes to look 
rather wizen and dowdy by comparison. And in the woods round 
Misurina it varies unexplainably into the most lovely tones of soft 
clear blue, sometimes looking at last as if a large Hepatica had got 
hung by mistake above the leaves of a fine and solid A. nemorosa. 
This species takes the treatment of its cousinhood, but is far too 
rarely seen—though of course it is fair to say that, unless you desire 
a full collection of the various groups, A. nemorosa itself fairly fills 
the bill as regards all the essential charms of its own section. 
A. triternata is an American species, with specially thin and ferny 
leaves at the base. 
A. trulliifolia, from the upper Himalaya, is a beautiful small alpine, 
a reduced version of A. obtusiloba, with golden flowers. 
A. vernalis takes us high, high into the Alps again, and is the boldest 
climber of all its race, at least in Europe. It is on the highest alpine 
grasses that you will come upon the Lady of the Snow. Spread out 
flat upon the ground, still sere and bare with the passing of winter, 
lie pressed the two or three carroty leaves, more coarsely and sparingly 
cut than in any Pulsatilla ; next, an inch or two of stem, shaggy with 
fur of bronzy gold, a fluffy frill of the same, and then, almost sitting 
upon the moor, like some mystic water-lily, a great goblet-shaped 
flower, staring up to the sun, white as an opalescent pearl within, and 
tasselled with fire, while the outside of the pearl is a-shimmer with 
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