BUTTERCUP FAMILY, Ranunculaceae. 
Anemones grow in températe and cold regions every- 
where. They have no petals, but their sepals, numbering 
from four to twenty, resemble petals. The stem-leaves 
are in whorls, forming a kind of involucre below the flower. 
There are many kinds; some have nearly smooth, pointed 
akenes, some densely woolly ones, and in some the akenes 
have feathery tails. The name, pronounced anemone in 
Latin and in English anémone, is appropriate to the fragile 
kinds, such as the eastern Wood Anemone, for it means 
“‘flower shaken by the wind.” 
An attractive plant, eight inches to a 
foot tall, with pretty flowers and foliage. 
Canyon Anemone 
Anemone : , : . 
sphenophylla The flowers are white, tinged with pink, 
White less than an inch across, often downy out- 
Sant side, and the head of fruit is oblong, sleek, 
and silky downy. This grows on dry, 
rocky slopes in the Grand Canyon, above the plateau. 
Around Tucson the flowers are less pretty, but the foliage 
handsomer. 
orca Delicate, pale flowers, conspicuous in 
Aaa dark mountain woods, with slightly downy, 
Anemone deltcidea purplish stems, from eight to ten inches 
White tall, and pretty leaves, thin in texture, 
Sesamer the involucre-leaves without leaf-stalks, 
Wash., Oreg., Col. 3 z 
rather light-green, dull on the upper side, 
paler and shiny on the under. The pretty flowers are an 
inch and a half to over two inches across, with five, pure- 
white sepals, usually two of them larger and longer than 
the others, and a light bright-yellow center. This is 
abundant at Mt. Rainier. A. quinguefodlia var. Grayt, of 
the Coast Ranges, is similar, the flower often tinged with 
blue, the involucre-leaves with leaf-stalks. 
Wosthoos A pretty little plant, with a rather hairy, 
Anemone reddish stem, from four to twelve inches 
Anemone tall, glossy, dark-green leaves, paler and 
porviners downy on the underside, and flowers about 
White os 
= ALB half an inch across, cream=white, ting 
Northwest with purple or blue on the outside; the 
akenes ‘very woolly. This reaches an 
altitude-—of ten thousand five hundred feet, growing in 
the East and in Asia and is the smallést of the mountain 
Anemones. 
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