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plant, however, loses its leaves in autumn, whereas 

 those of the Spring Anemone persist throughout the 

 winter. 



THE ALPINE ANEMONE. 



The Alpine Anemone (Anemone alpina, Linn., and 

 its variety sulphur ea, Linn.) (Plates VI. and VII.) 

 is the most striking of all the Swiss Anemones, and 

 one of the most handsome of Alpine plants. It is 

 the large white, or more often sulphur-yellow, "Wind- 

 flower " of the pastures. It flowers in June and July, 

 according to the altitude, and in many districts it is 

 exceedingly common. It varies in height from six 

 inches to a foot or more. It has rather large, much- 

 divided leaves mounted on long stalks, which spring 

 from the stem just above the surface of the soil. The 

 flowers, which are also borne on fairly long flower- 

 stalks, are solitary. As in the Spring Anemone, there 

 is an involucre (see p. 35) of three leaves on the 

 flower-stalk below the flowers, but here the leaves 

 are large and highly divided, and altogether much 

 more like foliage leaves. In the photograph on 

 Plate VII., Fig. 1, two young flowers just expand- 

 ing can be seen still partly sheltered or enclosed by 

 the involucre, exactly as we noticed in the case of the 

 Spring Anemone. As the flowers mature, the stalks 

 between the involucres and the flowers grow rapidly, 

 and thus the flowers are carried up out of the 

 involucre. 



In the typical Alpine Anemone, the perianth 



