WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



out the Eastern United States, west to Kansas and 

 Minnesota, and sparingly in Ontario. The Latin name 

 is derived from the Greek and means bound together. 



WOOD ANEMONE. WIND FLOWER 



Anemone quinquefolia. Crowfoot Family. 



The Anemone has been an especially favoured flower 

 in poetics from various sources of considerable antiquity. 

 Its legendary and traditional significance has furnished 

 an abundance of material for the dear old "once upon 

 a time" stories which every grandmother loves to tell to 

 boys and girls. When we think of the many windy 

 days that we have during the early spring and consider 

 that the Anemone blooms at the same time, and that 

 their delicate stems make it possible for them to nod 

 and sway to and fro, this way and that, with every 

 breath of the wind, it is quite easy for us to understand 

 why they received the very appropriate name of Wind 

 Flower. Anemos, the wind god of the ancient Greeks, 

 utilized the Wind Flower to announce his presence and 

 to mark his course in the spring. Pliny concluded that 

 without the grace of Anemos, the Wind Flower would 

 not open, and to this famous Roman naturalist we 

 trace its Latin name. From other sources, we learn that 

 the wind, after blowing through these flowers, was at 

 one time supposed to cause disease. Greek poets tell 

 us that the Anemone originated in the tears dropped 

 by Venus while she was grieving in the forest over the 

 tragic death of her sweetheart, Adonis. Again, we 

 are told that the Romans believed that the Wind Flower 



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