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is by no means rare. It is of this one that Bryant, Americas woodland poet, is 

 singing as he tells that 



" The sun of -May was bright in middle heaven. 

 And steeped the sprouting forests, the green hills 

 And emerald wheat-fields in his yellow light. 

 Upon the apple trees, where rosy buds stood clustered 

 Ready to burst forth in bloom, 



The robin warbled forth his full clear note for hours, 

 And wearied not. Within the woods, 

 Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast 

 A shade, gay circles of anemones 

 Danced on their stalks." 



A. Pennsylvanica, the Pennsylvanian anemone, the flowers of which are 

 composed of five obvate white sepals from half to three-quarters of an inch in 

 length, and which are to be found from June to August, is also not rare in 

 Ontario. 



A. Baldensts, Hooker, is found growing in arid places on the eastern sum- 

 mits of the Rocky Mountains in latitude 52° to 55 . Also A. delboidea, Hooker, 

 occurs in British Columbia ; A. Richardsoni, Hooker, is found on the shores of 

 Hudson's Bay ; and A. narcissiflora, Linnaeus, on the north-west coast. 



The most beautiful of Canadian anemones is found in our western prairies, 

 and is known to us only by name and the description of botanical writers. It is 

 called the pasque-flower ; by botanists A. patetis var Nuttaliana. Mrs. Traill 

 says. " It is one of the earliest of the spring flowers to gladden the earth with its 

 large azure-blue b'ossoms." Gray describes it as being villous with long silky 

 hairs ; flower erect, large, with usually some glandular bodies like abortive 

 stamens answering to petals, and developed before the leaves ; sepals five to 

 seven, one inch to an inch and a half long, purplish or whitish, appearing in 

 March and April. 



