BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
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1.—THE PASQUE-FLOWER. (Anemone Pulsatilla, Lin.) 
Svnonvme. —Pulsatilla vernalis, Spreng. lobes. Iuvolucrum iu deep linear segments. Flower solitary, nearly 
Engraving. Eng. Bot., t. 51, 2d ed., t. 777. erect. Petals six. Awns of the fruit long, feathery. {Smith.) 
Specific Character. —Leaves doubly pinnate, cut, with linear 
Description, &c. —This plant is probably not a true native of England, though it is found abundantly in 
the high chalky pastures of the southern districts, where it flowers in April and May. The flowers are of a 
deep purple, clothed on the outside with long silky hairs, and the carpels have feathery tails. This species is 
common all over the middle and south of Europe ; but it will only grow in an elevated situation, and where it 
has an abundance of pure air. In the language of flowers, the purple Anemone signifies forsaken. 
2.— THE WOOD ANEMONE. (Anemone nemorosa, Lin.) 
Engravings.— Eng. Bot., t. 355 ; 2d ed., t. 778 ; and our Jig. 1, Fruit pointed, without tails. Iuvolucrum of three ternate or quinate, 
in PI. 2. stalked, lobed, and cut leaves. {Smith.) 
Specific Character. —Flowers solitary. Petals six, elliptical. 
Description, &c. —This is one of the most common of the British flowers, as there is scarcely a wood or 
thicket in Great Britain, where there is marshy ground, in which it is not to be found. It is only, however, in 
moist shady situations that it will thrive. The flowers are extremely beautiful, as they are of a snowy white 
with a delicate purple tinge ; as is very elegantly described in the following lines :— 
“ Nymph of the wood and forest glade 1 
In thy own fair vestal robes arrayed. 
In the calm of the silent sylvan botvers, 
’Tis sweet to gaze on thy drooping flotvers. 
Chaste and pure as the driven snotv, 
Yet faintly tinged with a purple glow. 
Like mountain crests, 
On some Alpine height, 
When the snow-drift rests 
In the evening light! ” 
The Wild Garland. 
The Wood Anemone is frequently cultivated in gardens, and sometimes it becomes double, though it is not 
so pretty as it is in a single state. It has a creeping root, and, when once established, it is very difficult to 
eradicate it. This plant is one of the early spring-flowers, but it is said that it never comes into blossom before 
the 16th of March, or later than the 22nd of April. In the woods, these Anemones are the first flowers 
which seem to triumph over the dead leaves and other vegetable remains which have been left still partially 
undecayed from the preceding autumn, and to clothe the ground in the gay livery of spring. 
-Anemone’s weeping flowers, 
Dyed in winter’s snow and rime, 
Constant to their early time. 
White the leaf-strervn ground again, 
And make each wood a garden glen. 
Clare. 
In the language of flowers, the Wood Anemone is made to signify sickness, but this seems a strange 
interpretation to put upon a lovely little flower. In the botanical construction of this flower, it must be 
observed that the carpels are without the feathery tails which are so conspicuous in A. pulsatilla. 
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