32 DESCRIPTIVE BOTANY. 



Geography. — Vermont, northern N. Y., and north and west to the Pacific, 

 rare. 



7. A. nemorosa, L. (Windflower. Wood Anemone.) Stem 5 to 10 inches 

 high, smooth, from a filiform, frequently knotty, root stock. Radical leaf 

 solitary, ternate, leaflets usually undivided, occasionally 3-parted or cleft; 

 leaves of the involucre petioled, 3 in number, and near the summit of the 

 stem, just above which is the solitary flower ; sepals 4-7, oval or elliptical, 

 white, pinkish or purplish outside. Fruit in a head, carpels oblong, tipped 

 with a hooked beak. April, May. 



Qpograpliy. — Northern United States and British America, in open woods 

 near the base of old trees. 



8. A. parviflora, Mx. (Small-flowered Anemone.) Stem 3 to 10 inches 

 high, pubescent. Leaves 3-parted, parts 3-cleft and wedge-shaped, divisions 

 crenate ; involucre 2- or 3-leaved, nearly sessile, divided as the other leaves. 

 Flowers Avhite, sepals 5-6, oval. Fruit in a globular head. May to June. 



Geography. — Canada, near Lake Superior, west to the Colorado Mountains, 

 and north to the Arctic Ocean. 



9. A. patens, L. (Var. Nuttaliana, Gray.) (Pasque-flower.) Stem 6 to 12 

 inches high, clothed Avith silky liairs. Leaves on long petioles, silky, ternately 

 divided segments, cut into linear and wedge-shaped sections, the middle seg- 

 ment stalked and 3-parted, involucre below the middle of the stem, sessile 

 and finely dissected, concave or cup-shaped. Flower solitary, appearing before 

 the leaves, sepals 5-6 or 7, nearly an inch long, pale-purple and showy, silky 

 outside. 



Geography. — Dry hills. Illinois, Wisconsin, and west and north to the 

 Rocky Mountain region. 



10. A. Virginiana, L. (Virginian Anemone. Thimble weed.) Stem or 

 scape 2 to 3 feet high, hairy, usually divided above into 2 or 3 long peduncles, 

 with involucres of two bracts at the middle, or 1 naked, main involucre 3-leaYed. 

 Leaves on petioles 6 to 10 inches long, stalks of the bracts shorter, leaf 3-parted, 

 parts ovate-lanceolate, toothed and lobed ; those of the side 2-parted, middle 

 one 3-cleft. Sepals 5, greenish-yellow or whitish. Fruit in oblong, woolly 

 heads. June to August. 



Geography — Canada, south to Carolina. Woods and damp copses, common. 



Etymology and History. — Anemone is from the Greek word 6,v€jxos, Avind; 

 the ancients believed the plant always appeared in places exposed to the wind. 

 The specific names are from the Latin, and are explained by the common 

 names, which are translations, as follows: Parviflora, small-flowered ; Mul- 

 t'tfida, many-cleft ; Carol iniana, Carolina Anemone, etc. Hepatica from the 

 Greek rj-jrariKos, the liver, due to the fancied resemblance of the 3-lobed 

 leaves to the shape of the liver. Most of the species are natives of Europe. 



Cultivation. — By cultivation the size of the flower may be increased; the 

 colors are modified, and many of the stamens are often changed into small 

 petals. The anemone prefers a light soil ; the root is taken up after flower- 

 ing, the plant being propagated by parting the roots as well as by seed. Seed- 

 ing plants do not flower till the second or third year. 



Use. — Several species of anemone are used for ornamental purposes. They 

 are easily raised from the seed, and a bed of the single varieties is a valuable 

 addition to a flower-garden, as it affords in a warm situation an abundance of 

 handsome and brilliant spring floAvers, appearing almost as early as the snow- 

 drop and the crocus. In Europe it is used as borders in planted grounds, and 



