CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS. 



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Fig 298. Wood anemone, wind flower (Anemone quinque folia) . one of the earliest 

 flowering woodland plants. It is a low. slender plant with 3 ^"^°"^^;.^^;;=^fl^;;'",7'"«Vhe 

 involucre, from the junction of which arises a P^duncle.bearmg a sohtary flower The 

 sepals va;y in number as well as in color; there are generally 5. which are usually whtt.sh. 

 or slightly tinged with purple.— After Brown. 



Delphinium Staphisagria, which yields the official staphisagria 

 or stavesacre, is a handsome, tall, biennial larkspur, with dark 

 green, palmate 5- or 7-lobed leaves and blue or purplish flowers in 



