8 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



Besides the wood-anemone we have the A. pulsatilla, 

 or Pasque-flower, so-called from its flowering- about the 

 Paschal season or Easter. It may be found occasion- 

 ally on open chalk downs, but it is by no means 

 common. Its flowers are large, violet-purple in colour, 

 and very handsome. Besides these two we occasionally 

 find the blue mountain-anemone, or A. apennina, and the 

 yellow wood-anemone, or A. ranunculoides ; but neither 

 of these can claim to be truly indigenous, though they 

 have at times strayed from cultivation and established 

 themselves in our woods. The first of the two has large 

 and pale lilac-blue flowers, and when growing in masses 

 has a very beautiful effect; the second we do not re- 

 member to have ever seen. The numerous varieties of 

 anemone grown in our gardens owe their origin to south 

 and east European species more or less transformed by 

 cultivation and the florist's art. 



