How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Long-Fruited Anemone

Anemone cylindrica. Crowfoot Family.

Stem.--Slender; about two feet high; silky-haired. Flowers.--Greenish white; much as in above. Fruit-head.--Cylindrical, about one inch long. The long-fruited anemone flowers in the dry woods of May. Anemone Pennsylvanica. Crowfoot Family.

Stem.--Hairy. Flowers.--White; rather large; otherwise much as in above. Fruit-head.--Spherical.

This plant really is another of the thimble-weeds, and when in flower it is by far the prettiest and most noticeable of the group. Its white blossoms mass themselves along the waysides in early summer.

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