124 breck's new book of flowers. 



ers either do not open, or close up again. So says Lou- 

 don. It is a handsome trailing weed of England, and 

 is found in some parts of this country. 



Anagallis grandiflora carnea^ A. lilacea and A. fruti- 

 cosa, are j)i*etty annuals. 



ANCHUSA.-BUGLOSS. 



[Derived from the Greek, mea,mng paint for the skiti ; one of the species hav- 

 ing been used in early times to stain the skin.] 



Anchusa Italica. — Italian Bugloss. — Is a tall-growing 

 hardy perennial, with coarse, rough leaves, but bearing a 

 multitude of small briUiant blue flowers all the season. 

 There is another species with parti-colored red and purple 

 flowers ; and still another with red flowers. All the species 

 are tall-growing plants, from two to three feet high. 

 Easy to cultivate and perfectly hardy, desirable only iu 

 large collections. 



ANEMONE.— Wind-flower. 



[From the Greek, aneinos, wind ; some say because the flower opens only 

 when the wind blows ; others, because it grows in situations much exposed to 

 wind.] 



"Youtli, like a thin Anemone displays 

 His silken leaf, and in a morn decays." 



This poetical allusion is in reference to the fragiUty of 

 the Anemone, which applies to tlie Wood Anemone of 

 Europe and this country, and not to A. coronaria, a 

 florist's flower, which has already been described under 

 the head of bulbous roots. 



Anemone Pulsatilla, Pasque Flower, is an old-fashioned 

 English }>erc'nni;d ])order-tlo\vcr, easily cultivated, and 

 descriped )jy Gerade, the herbalist, in his book written 

 two hundred and flfty years ago, thus: — "It hath many 



