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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
A. palmata. This Windflower from the Mediterra- 
nean shores grows 6 to 9 inches high, and is remark- 
able for its roundish leathery leaves cut into 3 to 5 
lobes, and also for its large golden yellow flowers in 
May and June. The double flowered form (flore plena) 
and the white one (alba) are rarely seen. The plants 
may be grown in the same way as A. fulgens. A. ranun- 
culoides is very similar to the Wood Anemone (A. nemo- 
rosa ) and requires the same treatment. It is easily 
distinguished by its clear golden yellow flowers in 
March and April. 
II. FIBROUS-ROOTED WINDFLOWERS. 
A. alba, 6 inches high, with white flowers in June. 
A. albana, 6 inches high, has yellowish flowers in 
April and May. A. alpina, 6 inches to 2 feet high, 
has white, creamy, purplish, or yellow blossom in 
May, according to its several forms. The white and 
yellow-flowered forms ( alba and sulphur ea ) are the 
best. A. angulosa (or Hepatica angulom ) is a very 
distinct little plant. It is 6 to 12 inches high, with 
coarsely-toothed 5-lobed leaves forming a dense green 
carpet beneath the sky-blue blossoms in February and 
March. In the variety called atrocoerulea, the flowers 
are of a still deeper tint. The plants like warm and 
well-drained loamy soil in the rock garden or border. 
A. decapetala , about 18 inches high, has creamy- white 
or pale primrose-yellow blossoms from May to July. 
It flourishes in ordinary garden soil and likes partially 
shaded spots. 
A. Hepatica (Hepatica triloba), about 6 inches high, 
may be recognised by its 3-lobed leaves, and blue 
