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EECEEATIYE SCIENCE. 



WAYSIDE WEEDS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. 



IN SIX HANDFTILS. — HANDFUL III. 



" Their heads 

 Flowers raise, to greet the sun ; and man, too, lifts 

 His thankful soul to God for all these summer gifts." 



Caxder Campbell. 



The Plants of the Handful — Honeysuckle and Blue- 

 bell, Daisy, Thistles, Wild Chamomile, Eagwort, 

 and Colt's-foot — Elder Flower — The Bedstraws — 

 The one-pieced Corolla — Honeysuckle and Com- 

 posite Blossoms — The Composite Family — Inflo- 

 rescence — The Scape and Rachis — The Capitu- 

 lum — The Spike — Axillary Flowers — The Raceme 

 —The Umbel — The Panicle— The Catkin— The 

 Whorl — Glomerulus, Spathe, and Cyme — Bracts. 



Fio. 4.^.— Blossom of Common Wild Chamomile. 

 a, disk ; b, ray ; c, peduncle. The leaves are di- 

 vided into capillary or hair-like segments. Inflo- 

 rescence definite. 



What liave we P HoneysucHe, certainly, by 

 the scent before we see it, and the " bonny 



bluebell," and the " wee, modest, crimson- 

 tipped" daisy, that Burns wrote of, and that 

 Chaucer well-nigh worshipped as well as 

 wrote of. These are almost enough to inake 



Fig. ii. — Blossoms of Common Ragwort. The in- 

 florescence is definite, and arranged in a corymb. 



a handful of themselves. But mind your 

 fingers, for there should be prickly thistles 



