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straighten and leave the stigmas more exposed, 

 so that both anthers and stigmas are mature when 

 insect visitors arrive. These guests are chiefly 

 small bees and flies : both collect pollen and some 

 of the bees appear to find nectar on the receptacle 

 below the pistils. 



The time of blossoming of our Wood Anemone 

 has been well indicated by the poet Bryant : 



Within the woods, 

 Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce 



cast a shade, 

 Gay circles of anemones dance on their stalks. 



And the same picture has been painted by 

 Henry van Dyke in the familiar lines : 



The flocks of young anemones 



Are dancing 'round the budding trees. 



RUE ANEMONE. The Rue Anemone is at once 

 distinguished from the Wood Anemone by the 

 presence of several flowers upon one stalk, in 

 place of the single blossom of the latter. The for- 

 mer is frequently the taller of the two, although 

 it grows in much the same situations, both species 

 often being found intermingled. In the Rue Ane- 

 mone three to five or more of the small white 

 flowers project in an umbel from the whorl of 

 leaves. There are five to ten of the petaloid 

 sepals, some of which may have the white slightly 



