WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefoUa) . Crowfoot family. 
April, May. 
A low perennial with delicate stem bearing a flower an inch 
broad with four to nine white sepals resembling petals; no 
corolla. Sometimes, later, a leaf with five leaflets, at the base 
on a long stalk ; below the flower are three leaves, long-stalked, 
each with three leaflets. Woods. 
Thimble weed {Anemone virginiana). Crowfoot family, 
June to August. 
An upright perennial, two feet or over, with stout hairy stem. 
The flowers (one to one and one-half inches broad) have five 
white petal-like sepals, no corolla. Leaves at the base long- 
stalked, three-parted; below the flower three leaves, with 
pointed lobes, on short stalks. Fruit oval or oblong. Woods 
and meadows. Long- fruited Anemone {A. cylindrica) and 
Canada Anemone {A. canadensis) are similar but lower. Long- 
fruited with narrowly cylindrical, Canada with spherical fruit. 
Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides) . Crowfoot family. 
April to June. 
A low perennial, from tuberous roots, with simple stem bear- 
ing several flowers (one-half to one inch broad) in umbel ; sepals 
numerous, resembHng petals; petals none; three-lobed leaflets 
whorl ed under the flowers on slender stalks. Later from the 
base, other compound leaves with roundish leaflets, somewhat 
three-lobed at end, heart-shaped at base, in threes. Woods. 
Authorities differ as to whether the name signifies " shaken 
by the wind," or whether it is a corruption of the Semitic name 
for Adonis. In any event the mythological origin of the Anem- 
one dates from the death of Adonis, and the grief of Venus, 
when — 
" The rose starts blushing from the sanguine dyes 
And from her tears anemones arise." — Bion, Idyll. 
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