. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. APRIL AND MAY. J7 flower beside the road, and as late, too, as the mid- dle of May. This was among the mountains, where the altitude is apt to retard the advance of spring. The blossom is frail, with five or more white sepals (not petals) sometimes suffused with a delicate crimson pink. The leaves are character- istically wedge-shaped, and on this account there is no excuse for confusing the plant with Thaliotrum anemo- noides, or rue anemone. The leaves of the latter are like those of the meadow rue. Eue Anemone. The dainty rue Anemoneiia anemo
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. APRIL AND MAY. J7 flower beside the road, and as late, too, as the mid- dle of May. This was among the mountains, where the altitude is apt to retard the advance of spring. The blossom is frail, with five or more white sepals (not petals) sometimes suffused with a delicate crimson pink. The leaves are character- istically wedge-shaped, and on this account there is no excuse for confusing the plant with Thaliotrum anemo- noides, or rue anemone. The leaves of the latter are like those of the meadow rue. Eue Anemone. The dainty rue Anemoneiia anemone is often thaUctroides, • i i or Thaiictrum contused With the anemo. Anemoneiia thalie- anemone jnst de- scribed. A glance at my two drawings will at once discover the wide difference between the two little plants. Besides the difference in leafage, A. nemorosa is a one-flowered plant, while A. thaUctroides bears quite a cluster of blossoms having six or more white se-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co
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