Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . -, of different lengthsand arranged around the numerous Side /icia/ stamens \];ti\5. ANEMONE PATENS. old friends and visits to old haunts do the re-turned traveler. To the person living east of the AppalachianMountains, a new friend ma}- be found in thePasque flower Anemone patens. This is aprairie flower not found east of Illinois. I found it for the first time on April 7, 1894,growing on the prairie a short distance out ofWinona, jNIinn. We left the city and followedthe many children who a

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Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . -, of different lengthsand arranged around the numerous Side /icia/ stamens \];ti\5. ANEMONE PATENS. old friends and visits to old haunts do the re-turned traveler. To the person living east of the AppalachianMountains, a new friend ma}- be found in thePasque flower Anemone patens. This is aprairie flower not found east of Illinois. I found it for the first time on April 7, 1894,growing on the prairie a short distance out ofWinona, jNIinn. We left the city and followedthe many children who are always anxious toget the earliest flowers. The anemones werethickly dotted all around us in the dead grass,which had been kept closely cut the fall before. The leaf does not grow till the plant hasfinished blooming. It is like our Hepatica inthat, biit unlike the Hepatica the leaves of theAnemone are quite brown and dried, resemb-ling the dead grass about them. Then, too. There is a pleasant, though not sweet, perfume. Later in the season while out on a tramp wecame across the Anemone in seed. The littlepeduncle had grown to a proud height, and

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