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ers either do not open, or close up again. So says Lou* 

 don. It is a handsome trailing weed of England, and 

 is found in some parts of this country. 



Anagallis grandiflora carnea^ A. lilacea and A. fruti- 

 cosa, are pretty annuals. 



ANCHTTSA. BUGLOSS. 



[Derived from the Greek, meaning paint for the skin ; one of the species hav- 

 ing been used in early times to stain the skin.] 



Anchfisa Italic a, Italian Bugloss. Is a tall-growing 

 hardy perennial, with coarse, rough leaves, but bearing a 

 multitude of small brilliant blue flowers all the season. 

 There is another species with parti-colored red and purple 

 flowers ; and still another with red flowers. All the species 

 are tall-growing plants, from two to three feet high. 

 Easy to cultivate and perfectly hardy, desirable only in 

 large collections. 



ANEMONE. WIND-FLOWER. 



[From the Greek, anemos, wind ; some say because the flower opens only 

 when the wind blows ; others, because it grows iu situations much exposed to 

 wind.] 



"Youth, like a thin Anemone displays 

 His silken leaf, and in a morn decays." 



This poetical allusion is in reference to the fragility of 

 the Anemone, which applies to the Wood Anemone of 

 Europe and this country, and not to A. coronaria, a 

 florist's flower, which has already been described under 

 the head of bulbous roots. 



Anemone Pulsatilla, Pasque Flower, is an old-fashioned 

 English perennial border-flower, easily cultivated, and 

 descriped by Gerade, the herbalist, in his book written 

 two hundred and fifty years ago, thus: "It hath many 



