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FIG. 298. Wood anemone, wind flower (Anemone qutngue folia) , one of the earliest 

 flowering woodland plants. It is a low, slender plant with 3 trifoliate leaves forming an 

 involucre, from the junction of which arises a peduncle, bearing a solitary flower. The 

 sepals vary in number as well as in color; there are generally 5, which are usually whitish, 

 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 



