WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
mentally distinct. This will be better appreciated when 
it is considered that both species blossom at about the 
same time, and often grow side by side. The most 
striking difference between the Wood and Rue Anemone 
is found in the roots. The former has a thick, hori- 
zontal root stock, while the roots of the latter are formed 
of a small group of little bulbs, resembling tiny sweet 
potatoes. The perfect, white flower is sometimes 
tinted with pink. It is smaller than those of its cousin, 
the Wind Flower, and in common with them, it soon 
perishes after being plucked. From five to ten, usually 
six, thin, oval, petal-like sepals form the flower, which 
varies from one-half to one inch in diameter. It has 
numerous short, yellow-tipped, white, hair-like stamens 
clustered around the several light green pistils in the 
centre. Two, or generally three, flowers are borne on 
slender stems in a cluster surrounded with a loose 
whorl of three-lobed, hair-stemmed leaflets, the stems 
of which unite on the stalk with those of the flowers. 
The centre flower opens first. The single, slender, 
erect stem is stained with red, and grows from four to 
nine inches high. The leaflets of the compound leaves, 
which appear after the flowers, are grouped into threes, 
and strongly resemble those of the Meadow Rue. 
Their texture is smooth and fine, medium or dark 
green in colour, or at first often tinged with red, and 
notched into two or three lobes on the rounding end. 
They are delicately veined and rise directly from the 
roots. The Rue Anemone is found commonly during 
the spring from March to June, in thin woods, through- 
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