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rarely showing tintings of pink. These two species are 

 found in almost every locality ; in deep, low woods, or 

 rocky pastures, often fringing the edge of the forest with 

 their delicate blossoms, or clinging to the sides of shady 

 rocks. As the woods are cut away, and the underbrush 

 cleared up, the anemones gradually disappear, the rue-leaved 

 lingering the longer. The common species are, 



Anemone nemorosa (Wood Anemone). Root, creeping ; 

 stem erect, supporting a single flower above a whorl of com- 

 pound leaves. The flower consists of five petals. By cul- 

 tivatiori the stamens have been converted into petals, and a 

 double variety produced. It is very handsome and orna- 

 mental, though lacking the simple grace and beauty of the 

 single form. The Anemone succeeds well in cultivation if 

 the exposure is not too sunny. 



Anemone tkalictroides, or Hue-leaved Anemone, called 

 by later botanists Thalictrum anemonoides. A very pretty 

 plant, distinguished from the last by its tuberous root and 

 the number of flowers, which vary from one to fifteen. The 

 stem bears two or three leaves at the very summit, like 

 those from the root (which are compound, usually three 

 times ternate), but without the common petiole, so that 

 they seem like a whorl of long- stalked, simple leaves. 

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