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table decoration there can be nothing daintier. (See illus- 

 tration, p. 70.) 



Thimbleweed 



Anemone ripkria. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, white. Petals, 

 none. Sepals, large, looking like petals, softly silky underneath. 

 Pistils and stamens, numerous. Fruit, a cylindrical head which 

 suggests the common name of thimbleweed. Achenes, flat, clothed 

 with long, woolly hairs. Leaves, compound or dissected, from the 

 root. The stem bears, some distance below the flowers, an in- 

 volucre of long-petioled, lance-shaped, thin leaflets. May, June. 



A tall species with showy flowers. The stem branches 

 above into 2 or more single -flowered peduncles. River- 

 banks from Maine to eastern Pennsylvania. 



A, cylindrica. is a slender, silky-stemmed plant, with a whorl 

 of involucral, 3 -divided leaves half-way up the main stem, from 

 which spring 2 or 3 naked flower - stalks, or perhaps a single 

 peduncle having a second whorl of smaller, cut leaves. Plant 

 about 2 feet high, with greenish-white sepals. 



These two species are very similar. Attention to their 

 foliage will enable one to distinguish between them. 



Wind Flower. Wood Anemone 



A, quinquefblia, — Color, white, the sepals sometimes striped or 

 tinted with blue or rose outside. Petals, none. Sepals, 4 to 7, 

 like petals. Stamens, many. Pistils, 15 to 20, forming a head 

 of carpels, with hooked beaks in fruit. Flower, single, large, open, 

 1 inch broad, slightly nodding. Leaves, from the root, and 3 on 

 the flower-stem, forming an involucre above the middle. Leaflets 

 3 -divided, the lateral in one variety 2 -parted, oblong in general 

 outline, on long petioles. April and May. 



A delicate little plant, one of the first to appear in spring. 

 It grows from a thin, elongated rootstock. Sterile plants 

 also come up, consisting of a single root-leaf. It is a sure 

 proof that winter is gone when the first wind flower appears 

 in protected nooks, looking bravely out into the new world, 

 daring late frosts and winds, secure in that very fragileness 

 which bends to the strong blasts. 



Open woods or margins of deeper woods. Also found in 

 pine woods. (See illustration, p. 72.) 



Goldthread 



Coptis trifolia. (Coptis, to cut, alluding to the divided leaves.) 

 —Family, Crowfoot. Sepals, 5 to 7, falling early. Petals, same 



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