BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 



Anemones grow in temperate and cold regions every, 

 where. They have no petals, but their sepals, numbering 

 from four to twenty, resemble petals. The stem-leaves 

 are in whorls, forming a kind of involucre below the flower. 

 There are many kinds; some have nearly smooth, pointed 

 akenes, some densely woolly ones, and in some the akenes 

 have feathery tails. The name, pronounced anem6ne in 

 Latin and in English anemone, is appropriate to the fragile 

 kinds, such as the eastern Wood Anemone, for it means 

 " flower shaken by the wind." 



An attractive plant, eight inches to a 



Canyon Anemone ' 



Anemone * oot ta ^ Wlt ^ P rett y flowers and foliage. 



sphenophylla The flowers are white, tinged with pink, 



White less than an inch across, often downy out- 



side, and the head of fruit is oblong, sleek, 

 and silky downy. This grows on dry, 



rocky slopes in the Grand Canyon, above the plateau. 



Around Tucson the flowers are less pretty, but the foliage 



handsomer. 



Delicate, pale flowers, conspicuous in 

 Three-leaved ' ^ 



Anemone dark mountain woods, with slightly downy, 



Anemone dcltoldea purplish stems, from eight to ten inches 

 White tall, and pretty leaves, thin in texture, 



Summer thc i nvo lucre-lcaves without leaf-stalks, 



Wash., Oreg., Col. 



rather light-green, dull on the upper side, 



paler and shiny on the under. The pretty flowers are an 

 inch and a half to over two inches across, with five, pure- 

 white sepals, usually two of them larger and longer than 

 the others, and a light bright-yellow center. This is 

 abundant at Mt. Rainier. A. quinquefblia var. Grdyi, of 

 the Coast Ranges, is similar, the flower often tinged with 

 blue, the involucre-leaves with leaf -stalks. 

 Northern ^ P re tty little plant, with a rather hairy, 



Anemone reddish stem, from four to twelve inches 



Anemone tall, glossy, dark-green leaves, paler and 



parm flora downy on the under side, and flowers about 



Summer na ^ an mc ^ across, cream-white, tinged 



Northwest with purple or blue on the outside; the 



akenes very woolly. This reaches a* 

 altitude of ten thousand five hundred feet, growing in 

 the East and in Asia and is the smallest of the mountain 

 Anemones. 



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