THE ANEMONE. 



Anemone nemorosa. Nat. Ord., 

 'i Ranunculacece. 



S the winds of March sweep 

 through thp copse and along 

 the hedgerows, the delicate 

 anemones or wind-flowers ex- 

 pand their blossoms to the 

 breeze; and the older writers 

 associated the March winds 

 with the opening flowers, and 

 made the one dependent on 

 the other. " The coy anemone, 

 that ne'er uncloses her leaves 

 until they're blown on by the 

 wind/' derives even its name, 

 which is Greek in its origin, 

 from this fabled association 

 with the breezes, for Pliny says 

 that it was so called because it 

 never opened its blossoms but 



_. _ -V - : - when the wind was blowing. 



Culpepper, we see, speaks also of the anemone as " called 

 wind-flower, because they say the flowers never open but 

 when the wind bloweth. Pliny is my author; if it 

 be not so, blame him." Culpepper's language, we may 

 mention, is often more expressive than polite, and he 



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