WILD FLOWERS white and greenish 



are pure white or sometimes tinted with pink or blue. 

 Numerous cream-tipped stamens are clustered about 

 the many small, green pistils in the centre of the slightly 

 cupped solitary flower which is borne on the tip of the 

 single, round, green stem, some four or more inches 

 high. The stem is smooth and slender, and is usually 

 stained with purple toward the base. It grows at right 

 angles from an elongated, fleshy, horizontal rootstock 

 — a storehouse of energy, which has so much to do with 

 the early flowering of the plant. The delicately tex- 

 tured, medium green compound leaves are gathered 

 on short stems in a whorl of three or sometimes five 

 about the flower stem, midway between the blossom 

 and the ground. The leaves are divided into three or 

 five paddle-shaped parts or lobes, each of which is 

 noticeably creased by a midrib. The centre lobes are 

 much larger than those on either side. Their edges are 

 irregularly notched. One or more basal leaves appear 

 after the flowering season, rising directly from the root 

 stock on long, individual stems. The entire plant is 

 perfectly balanced, delicate in structure and graceful 

 and charming in appearance. It ranges from Nova 

 Scotia to Georgia and westward to the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



The Tall Anemone, or Thimble-weed, A. virginiana, 

 is a much larger species growing singly in woods and 

 meadows throughout the same general range as the 

 Wind Flower, and occurring perhaps farther north, 

 during June, July and August. It grows from two 

 to three feet tall and is stout and branching, and 



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