BUTTERCUP FAA\ILY. Ranunculaceae. 



These beautiful mountain flowers bloom 

 Western in early spring, sometimes poking their 



Anemone pretty faces right through a hole melted in 



Anemone 11 j ,1 t v xj .i ,, 



ocddent&lis a snow-bank, and the brave little things 



White are quite thickly covered with silky wool 



Spring all over, as if to keep themselves warm. 



Northwest The flowcrs> which often bloom beforc the 



leaves expand, are about two inches across, with five to 

 eight, cream-white sepals, tinged with blue and hairy on 

 the outside, and are much less delicate looking than most 

 Anemones. The stout stems are very woolly, from six to 

 eighteen inches tall, and the leaves arc beautiful, cut into 

 numerous, very fine divisions, exceedingly feathery and 

 pretty. The akencs have long, feathery tails and form 

 very large, silky, fluffy heads, which are very handsome 

 and conspicuous. 



There are a good many kinds of Caltha, succulent 

 marsh plants, of temperate and arctic regions; the leaves 

 undivided, mostly from the base and more or less heart- 

 shaped; the flowers with large, petal-like sepals and no 

 petals. This is the Latin name of the Marigold. 



A pretty little mountain, marsh plant 

 White Marsh . ' 



Marigold Wlt ^ a smo th, stout, purplish stem from 



Cdliha leptosepala four to eight inches tall, and smooth, light- 

 White green leaves, often veined with purple on 

 Summer thc un( j cr s ^ e> The flowers are an inch 

 Northwest . 



and a quarter across, with eight or ten, 



cream-white sepals, tinged with blue on the outside, and 

 pretty golden centers of numerous stamens. This blooms 

 at the edge of the retreating snow and reaches an altitude 

 of twelve thousand feet. C. palustris, the Yellow Marsh 

 Marigold, found in the Northwest and common in the 

 East, has beautiful yellow flowers, resembling large Butter- 

 cups. 



