WHITE TO GREEN 



WESTERN ANEMONE 



Anemone occidentalis . Crowfoot Family 



Stems: erect, six to eighteen inches high. Leaves: large, long-petioled, 

 biternate and pinnate. Flowers: large, solitary; petals none; sepals five 

 to seven. Fruit: carpels with long filiform styles that become plumose 

 tails to the achenes. 



The Western Anemone is one of the most beautiful of the 

 early spring mountain flowers. Its handsome white cups, 

 purple-shaded on the outside, may be found growing close to 

 the retreating line of snow during the months of May and 

 June, and later on in the season its big fluffy seed-heads are 

 eagerly gathered by those who delight in artistic things. 

 This plant, like many others of the Crowfoot Family, has no 

 petals, only a lovely calyx fashioned into about six sepals, 

 which do duty instead. 



WIND-FLOWER 



Aneinone miiltifida. Crowfoot Family 



Stems: villous with long silky hairs. Leaves: long-petioled, nearly semi- 

 circular in outline, ternate, stem-leaves smaller, nearly sessile. Flowers: of 

 five to eight sepals. Fruit: globular to oblong; achenes densely woolly. 



The Wind-flower, as this delicate little Anemone is usually 

 called, appears on the dry meadows in the spring time in a 

 vast variety of hues, with many blossoms and much fruit. 

 Its colours range from white to red, with many intermediate 

 shades of yellow, pink, and purple-blue. It is to Pliny, the 

 famous ancient philosopher, that it owes its name, for he 

 declared that only the wind would cause Anemones to open ; 

 while a later poet has sung how Venus in her grief over 

 the death of Adonis ''poured out tears amain," and how 

 *' gentle flowers " were born to bloom at every drop that fell 

 from her lovely eyes : 



" Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the rose, 

 And where a tear has dropped, a wind-flower blows." 



