NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
blowing. Whatever the habits of the Anemone of the 
Grecian Isles may be, assuredly in their native haunts in 
this country the blossoms open alike in windy weather or 
in calm, in sunshine or in shade. It is more likely, that the 
‘wind acting upon the downy seeds of some species and 
dispersing them abroad has been the origin of the idea, and 
has given birth to the popular name which poets have made 
familiar to the ear with many sweet lines. Bryant, who is 
the American poet of Nature, for he seems to revel in all 
that is fair among the flowers and streams and rocks and 
forest shades, has also given the name of “ Wind-flower ” 
to the blue Hepatica. 
This pretty, delicate species loves the moderate shade of 
groves and thickets; it is often found in open pinelands of 
second growth, ‘and evidently prefers a light and somewhat 
sandy soil to any other, with glimpses of sunshine stealing 
down upon it. 
The Wood Anemone is from four to nine inches in height, 
but occasionally taller; the five rounded sepals which 
form the flower are white, tinged with a purplish-red or 
dull pink on the outside. The leaves are three-parted,, 
divided again into three, toothed and sharply cut, and: 
somewhat coarse in texture; the three upper stem leaves: 
form an involucre about midway between the root and the- 
flower-cup. 
Our Wood Anemone is a cheerful little flower, gladden-. 
ing us with its blossoms early in the month of May. It is: 
very abundant in the neighborhood of Toronto, on the 
grassy banks and piney dells of Dovercourt, and elsewhere. 
‘There thickly strewn in woodland bowers, 
Anemones their stars unfold.” 
A taller species, Anemone dichotoma, with very beauti- 
ful white starry flowers, is found on gravelly banks by 
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