24 ANEMONE NEMOROSA. — WIND-FLOWER OR WOOD-ANEMONE. 



If it has not very well prepared itself, it may not flower, and 

 then it appears as in our Fig. 3, — a long, petioled leaf only, 

 with a five-parted blade, when, like similar failures in human 

 life, it may be thankful for the chance to try again another time; 

 and, though a season has been thrown away, it generally manages 

 to make a good flowering specimen the next year. In this case we 

 have a pair of leaves from between which the flower is produced. 

 The little difference between the form of the growth when it is 

 barren and when it succeeds in producing a flower is not of 

 much importance here, but it wall help us to understand appear- 

 ances in other Anemones that have distinct root leaves, inde- 

 pendent of the flower stalks. 



Explanation of the Plate. — 1. The usual white-flowered form. — 2. A rose-flowered 

 variety. — 3. An abortive flower stalk. — 4. Full-face view of an expanded flower. 



