126 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



frequently found along the margins of alpine streams, being 

 much admired in fruit, when it shows numerous seed-bear- 

 ing stars, tipped with thread-like points. 



Thalictrum megacarpum, or Veiny Meadow Rue, has 

 purplish stems, ternate leaves, purplish-green flowers and 

 wedge-shaped achenes tapering into a short beak. The fila- 

 ments are not so long as in the preceding species. 



CHALICE CUP 



Anemone occ'idcntalis. Cfowfoot Family 



Stems: erect, six to eighteen inches high. Leaves: large, long- 

 petioled, biternate and pinnate. Flowers: large, solitary; petals none; 

 sepals five to seven. Fruit: carpels with long filiform styles that be- 

 come plumose tails to the achenes. 



The Chalice Cup is one of the most beautiful of the early 

 spring mountain flowers. Its handsome white blossoms, 

 purple-shaded on the outside, may be found growing close 

 to the retreating line of snow during the months of May 

 and June, and later on in the season its big fluffy seed-heads 

 are eagerly gathered by those who delight in artistic things. 

 This plant, like many others of the Crowfoot Family, has 

 no petals, only a lovely calyx fashioned into about six sepals, 

 which do duty instead. 



Anemone multifida, or Wind Flower, as this delicate little 

 Anemone is called, appears on the dry meadows in the 

 springtime in a vast variety of hues, with many blossoms 

 and much fruit. Its colours range from white to red, with 

 many intermediate shades of yellow, pink, and purple-blue. 

 It is to Pliny, the famous ancient philosopher, that it owes 

 its name, for he declared that only the wind would cause 

 Anemones to open ; while a later poet has sung how Venus 

 in her grief over the death of Adonis " poured out tears 



