WILD FLOWERS WHITE ANL GREENISH 
out the Eastern United States, west to Kansas and 
Minnesota, and sparingly in Ontario. The Latin name 
is derived from the Greek and means bound together. 
WOOD ANEMONE. WIND FLOWER 
Anemone quinquefolia. Crowfoot Family. 
The Anemone has been an especially favoured flower 
in poetics from various sources of considerable antiquity. 
Its legendary and traditional significance has furnished 
an abundance of material for the dear old “once upon 
a time’’ stories which every grandmother loves to tell to 
boys and girls. When we think of the many windy 
days that we have during the early spring and consider 
that the Anemone blooms at the same time, and that 
their delicate stems make it possible for them to nod 
and sway to and fro, this way and that, with every 
breath of the wind, it is quite easy for us to understand 
why they received the very appropriate name of Wind 
Flower. Anemos, the wind god of the ancient Greeks, 
utilized the Wind Flower to announce his presence and 
to mark his course in the spring. Pliny concluded that 
without the grace of Anemos, the Wind Flower would 
not open, and to this famous Roman naturalist we 
trace its Latinname. From other sources, we learn that 
the wind, after blowing through these flowers, was at 
one time supposed to cause disease. Greek poets tell 
us that the Anemone originated in the tears dropped 
by Venus while she was grieving in the forest over the 
tragic death of her sweetheart, Adonis. Again, we 
are told that the Romans believed that the Wind Flower 
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