WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
are pure white or sometimes tinted with pink or blue. 
Numerous cream-tipped stamens are clustered about 
the many small, green pistils in the centre of the slightly 
cupped solitary flower which is borne on the tip of the 
single, round, green stem, some four or more inches 
high. The stem is smooth and slender, and is usually 
stained with purple toward the base. It grows at right 
angles from an elongated, fleshy, horizontal rootstock 
—a storehouse of energy, which has so much to do with 
the early flowering of the plant. The delicately tex- 
tured, medium green compound leaves are gathered 
on short stems in a whorl of three or sometimes five 
about the flower stem, midway between the blossom 
and the ground. ‘The leaves are divided into three or 
five paddle-shaped parts or lobes, each of which is 
noticeably creased by a midrib. The centre lobes are 
much larger than those on either side. Their edges are 
irregularly notched. One or more basal leaves appear 
after the flowering season, rising directly from the root 
stock on long, individual stems. The entire plant is 
perfectly balanced, delicate in structure and graceful 
and charming in appearance. It ranges from Nova 
Scotia to Georgia and westward to the Rocky 
Mountains. 
The Tall Anemone, or Thimble-weed, A. virginiana; 
is a much larger species growing singly in woods and 
meadows throughout the same general range as the 
Wind Flower, and occurring perhaps farther north, 
during June, July and August. It grows from two 
to three feet tall and is stout and branching, and 
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