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easily moved by the wind, or because they open in a season of 

 high wiuds. 



WOOD ANEMORNE. Anemone Nemorosa. 



Leaves, three united, (ternate) leaflets, lanceolate, lobed, 

 and cut. Involucre similar to them, on Stalks ; Stem, single- 

 Flowered ; Sepals 6, of a long-oval, (eliptical) point of the 

 Achenes not Feathery.] 



You must visit the woods, where this lovely Plant 

 is blooming, to see it in all its beauty. Go, whilst the 

 Sun yet shines upon it, and the Flower is turned to 

 the Sun with expanded Sepals, like a beautiful Star. 

 Stay till the Sun declines, and the Flower droops its 

 head, displaying the beautiful purple tinge, and 

 veining of the outside of the Calyx ; the elegant and 

 graceful form of the whole plant, its finely-cut leaves, 

 often tinged with purple also, makes it one of the 

 most lovely of our Spring Flowers. Called the 

 " Queen of Wood Flowers," by a Poet, who adds : 



" I love that Flower, so delicately fair, 



So fondly bending on her slender stay, 



As if in love with her own leaves ; and where, 



In field or grove, 

 Be leaves so exquisitely wrought as they ? " 



T. L. MEEITT. 



In the North this Plant grows in " Moist pastures, 

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