THE ANEMONE 
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Another wild kind, the pasque-flower anemone (Ane- 
mone piilsatilla), bears a handsome purple blossom, and 
is often reared in gardens. Its native haunt is the chalky 
soil. It is a silky, downy plant. 
The yellow wood anemone (Anemone ranuncuioides) is 
a rare flower, but found in woods about Wrotham, in 
Kent — a neighbourhood remarkable for scarce plants, and 
well known to botanists. 
The remaining British species, the blue mountain ane- 
mone (Anemdne Apennma), is known by its extremely 
beautiful flowers, which are of a bright blue colour. It 
is, as its name imports, a dweller upon the mountains ; 
and some botanists consider that it is not a truly wild 
plant. 
It is not always easy to distinguish native plants from 
those which have been scattered by the winds from culti- 
vated grounds, or introduced into our fields and lanes by 
those who are in the habit of planting seeds from their 
gardens in the wild portions of the landscape. Besides 
that, birds carry seeds to a considerable distance; and 
they are often conveyed among the grain sown in the corn- 
field. The common bluebottle of the corn-field (Centaur- 
ea cyanus), and the handsome corn-cockle (Agrost^mma 
githago), though so very common in our corn-lands, are 
not indigenous plants, but w^ere brought from the East 
among the grain; and the fumitory (Fumaria), now show- 
ing its small red blossoms under every hedge and in every 
field, and coming up betw^een the brown ears of corn, 
was, in the time of Gesner, a rare plant in Europe, and 
is supposed to have been introduced from some eastern 
country. It is now so plentiful that it well deserves to 
be called smoke-of-the-earth — fume de terre " — as the 
French term it, and of wFich our fumitory is probably a 
corruption. 
Some species of garden anemone, especially the poppy 
anemone (Anemone coronaria), and the star anemone 
(Anemone hortensis), are well known as winter flowers, 
decking wuth their brilliant blossoms the beds on which 
few other flowers are blooming. They are so hardy that 
they may be made to blossom in any month of the year, 
by proper management in planting them. They grow wild 
generallv throughout the south of Europe, and are found 
