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WOOD ANEMONE. 
This pretty delicate species loves the moderate shade of groves 
and thickets, it is often found in open pinelands of second growth, 
and evidently prefers a light and somewhat sandy soil to any other; 
with glimpses of sunshine stealing down upon it. 
The Wood Anemone is from 4'--9' but seldom taller, the five 
rounded sepals which form the flower are white, tinged with a pur¬ 
plish-red or dull pink on the outside. The leaves are three parted, 
divided again in three, toothed and sharply cut and somewhat coarse 
in texture; the three upper stem leaves form an involucre about 
midway between the root and the flower-cup. 
Our Wood Anemone is a cheerful little flower gladdening us with 
its blossoms early in the month of May. It is very abundant in the 
neighbourhood of Toronto, on the grassy banks and piney-dells at 
Dover Court, and elsewhere. 
“ There thickly strewn in woodland bowers, 
Anemones their stars unfold.” 
A somewhat taller species with very white starry flowers, is 
found on gravelly banks under the shade of shrubs near the small 
lakes formed by the Otonabee river, W. Douro , where also, we find 
the downy seeded species known as “Thimble-weed” Anemone eylm- 
drica from the cylindrical heads of fruit, the “Thimble-weed” is not 
very attractive for beauty of colour; the flower is greenish-white, 
small, two of the sepals being shorter and less conspicuous than the 
others, the plant is from 1° 2° high the leaves of the cut and pointed 
involucre are coarse; of a dull green, surrounding the several long 
flower-stalks. The soft cottony seeds remain in close heads through 
the winter, till the spring breezes disperse them. 
