. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. CANADIAN The Buttercup Family—(Continued). anemone tribe—Genus Hepcitica. S there any need to describe the hepaticas ? They are so widely istributed, and open their pretty blossoms so early in the spring, that they are favorites with every woodland wanderer, known to some by the name of Liver-leaf, to some as Snow- flower, and to a few as Wind-flower, though the latter name is usually given to the andmone. Bryant alludes to it under the name Windflower, where he says : " Lodged in sunny cleft
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. CANADIAN The Buttercup Family—(Continued). anemone tribe—Genus Hepcitica. S there any need to describe the hepaticas ? They are so widely istributed, and open their pretty blossoms so early in the spring, that they are favorites with every woodland wanderer, known to some by the name of Liver-leaf, to some as Snow- flower, and to a few as Wind-flower, though the latter name is usually given to the andmone. Bryant alludes to it under the name Windflower, where he says : " Lodged in sunny clefts, Where the cold breeze comes not, blooms alone The little Wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes ; Linnaeus named it Anemone hepatica, but later botanists have followed the earlier name given by Dillenius. They also make two species of our hepaticas, giving to tfiose plants in which the leaves are composed of three obtuse, or rounded lobes, the name of Hepatica triloba ; and to those in which the lobes instead of being rounded are acute, or pointed, the name Hepatica acutiloba. Beyond this difference in the form of the leaves there does not seem to be any permanent features to distinguish one from the other. In both of them the involucre leaves are placed so near to the flower that they might be easily mistaken for a calyx, and in those plants that have rounded lobes these leaves are rounded, while the acute lobed have the involucre leaves also acute. The flowers in both have no petals, but the sepals are colored, sometimes a pale purple, oftener a pure azure blue, "as the spring heaven it gazes at," and sometimes pink, or white; they also vary in number from six to twelve. In some localities one will find only the round lobed variety ; again in others the acute lobed seems to be the only form. Both forms are to be found in the vicinity of Toronto; the round lobed prevail. ing in the vicinity of Victoria Park, the acute
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