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straighten and leave the stigmas more exposed, 
so that both anthers and stigmas are mature when 
insect visitors arrive. These guests are chiefly 
small bees and flies: both collect pollen and some 
of the bees appear to find nectar on the receptacle 
below the pistils. 
The time of blossoming of our Wood Anemone 
has been well indicated by the poet Bryant: 
Within the woods, 
Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce 
cast a shade, 
Gay circles of anemones dance on their stalks. 
And the same picture has been painted by 
Henry van Dyke in the familiar lines: 
The flocks of young anemones 
Are dancing ‘round the budding trees. 
RuE ANEMONE. The Rue Anemone is at once 
distinguished from the Wood Anemone by the 
presence of several flowers upon one stalk, in 
place of the single blossom of the latter. The for- 
mer is frequently the taller of the two, although 
it grows in much the same situations, both species 
often being found intermingled. In the Rue Ane- 
mone three to five or more of the small white 
flowers project in an umbel from the whorl of 
leaves. There are five to ten of the petaloid 
sepals, some of which may have the white slightly 
