Crowfoot ifamll^. 



Tall Anemone. Anemone Virginiana. 



Found during July and August in meadows, roadsides, and woods. 



The single stalk usually forks midway for the flowers ; it grows 

 between 2 and 3 feet high, and is slender and slightly rough to the 

 touch. In color it is light green. 



The compound leaf is 3-divided, the middle leaflet being 3-parted, 

 and the side leaflets 2-parted ; the margins are notched, and the fibre is 

 tough, while the surface is rough-hairy ; the color is green. The leaves 

 grow in a whorl of 3 about the stalk. 



The flower is a shallow cup, composed of 5 petal-like calyx-parts, 

 hollowed like shells, of a greenish-white color ; the pistils are many, 

 rising in a cylindrical greenish head in the center ; the stamens are 

 numerous, and pale. The flowers are set on long slender stems which 

 rise from the whorl of leaves; these stems often fork again at half 

 their length, where in that case, they bear a pair of small leaves, from 

 which the 2, or more, secondary flower-bearing stems arise. 



Less gregarious than its early sister, the Tall Anemone grows 

 solitary, or in twos and threes, — frequently beside an old stump. The 

 cylindrical or elongated head turns brown and becomes cottony when 

 the seeds are ripe. The tall elegance of this plant is noteworthy ; it 

 bears its leaves, flowers and seeds with an air of distinction, and the 

 long wand-like stems suggest the strings of some musical instrument 

 on which the wind may play, according to the old tradition that the 

 Anemones love to bloom when the wind blows. 



