60 ANEMONE. 



honey scales, nor glands, nor spurs are to be found in this 

 flower, which is regular, apetalous, polyandrous, and 

 hypogynous. 



The J^ruit. After the sepals and stamens have perished, 

 the green pistils still persist and ripen into a head of distinct 

 achenia which are singularly grooved and fluted. 



XII. THE WOOD ANEMONE. 4 



'"''The coy Anemonk that ne'er uncloses 

 Her lips until they're blown on by the Wind." 



Description. The Wind Flower, as it is frequently 

 called, abounds in hilly woods and often in company with 

 the Rue Anemone. It is a smaller plant, always one-flow- 

 ered, and about 5' high while the latter may be 9'. 



Analysis. In the ffiootwe have a new feature. It is a 

 slender creeper, a little fleshy, growing just beneath the 

 surface of the soil. It is called the root-stock, or more 

 accurately the rhizome. From its joints fibers grow down- 

 ward and stems upward. 



The Stem, slender but firm and erect, bears at the top 

 3 compound leaves forming, as it were, an involucre around 

 the one large flower. There is often, also, a radical leaf of 

 the same form. All are petiolate, palmately compound, and 

 their 3 (rarely 5) leaflets wedge-shaped (cuneate) at the base, 

 cut into lobes and teeth above. They are acrid to the taste 

 like the herbage of the Buttercup. Sheep and goats will eat 

 them, however, while they are refused by cattle and swine. 



honey is easily accessible in Ranunculus to all kinds of insects, yet the flower can 

 dispense with their services and fertilize itself ; while in Larkspur, where insect aid 

 is indispensable, the honey is stowed away in the end of deep spurs, and accessible 

 to bees only. The stigmas are not matured until after their own stamens have shed 

 their pollen ; then they put themselves in the way of the bees, to be dusted with pol- 

 len from other flowers. 



