Blue to Purple Flowers 259 



" Blue-eyed grass in the meadow, 

 And the laden bee's low hum, 

 Milkweeds all by the roadside, 

 To tell us summer is come." 



Sisyrinchium idahoense, or Twisted Blue-eyed Grass, has 

 erect stems which are usually twisted. The leaves are thin 

 and somewhat lax and the spathes are often deflexed long 

 and narrow, the outer one longer than the inner one. The 

 flowers grow on erect stalks and are deep violet-blue with 

 a small yellow eye. The capsule is globose. 



Sisyrinchium septentrionale , or Small Blue-eyed Grass, 

 is a low plant growing in small tufts and the leaves are 

 stiff erect and mostly setaceous. The rose-violet flowers 

 are very small and arise from between the short, partly 

 double, spathes and the closely-subtending slenderly pro- 

 longed outer bract. The segments of the perianth are 

 acuminate and short-aristate, not retuse. 



PASQUE FLOWER 



Anemone patens var. Wolfgangiana. Crowfoot Family 



Stems: erect, villous with long silky hairs. Leaves: ternately di- 

 vided, the lateral divisions two-parted, the middle one stalked and three- 

 parted, the segments deeply cleft into linear acute lobes. Flowers: 

 developed before the leaves; sepals rive to seven; petals none.. Fruit: 

 achenes compressed, pointed, ending in long feathery tails. 



The most remarkable feature of this large purple 

 Anemone is that it blossoms before its foliage is developed. 

 Frequently you will find lovely specimens of these flowers 

 in full bloom, standing up very straight on their thick 

 downy stalks, while the leaves, which are finely dissected, 

 are still folded up in soft silkiness about the base of the 

 plant. The five to seven sepals are pale purple outside, but 

 almost white inside, and are extremely soft and silky, while 



