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CLIMBING BUCK-WHEAT is'commonly known 

 by the name of Black Bind -weed, probably from the 

 dark colour of its seeds. It is a very common plant 

 among corn and in garden hedges, and blossoms from 

 June to September; its stem twists round everything 

 in its way. 



A plant that grows with a twining and spiral stem 

 invariably turns in the same direction. The Kidney- 

 bean and the Convolvulus turn with the apparent 

 motion of the sun, while the Hop and the Honey- 

 suckle take a contrary direction, and any act that can 

 be employed to change this law of nature is injurious 

 to the plant, and, if persevered in, destructive. The 

 Marsh-mallow- leaved Hermannia is a curious instance 

 of two flowers growing on the same stem which have 

 a spiral character, but which are invariably twisted in 

 opposite directions to each other. 



TUBEROUS MOSCHATEL. This curious plant, 

 of which there is but this one species, has been found 

 wild in many parts of the kingdom, and at Bockleton, 

 in Worcestershire, by Miss M. It blossoms at the end 

 of March, or the beginning of April, and the berries 

 ripen in May, scon after which the leaves decay. 

 These and the flowers smell like musk, from whence 

 it has been sometimes called Musk Crow-foot. 



