I.ADVS SMOCK 



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Xo water- nu'iulow wmiKl lie coniplrtc in .sprin_<j without its Lady's 

 Smocks, which arc tlnttcd up and down die lovv-lyiiiL;; districts Ijordcr- 

 ing our streams and rivers Irom Land's Lnd to John o' Groat's. It 

 may be found also in hilly districts where sjjrini^s issue from the 

 hillside, and make the meadows moisi and tlamp on their llanks. It is 

 found in true marsh and bo<:jdand, and once fornnrlv in the hens. 



The Cuckoo Flower has the rosette hahii. The rootstock is short 



I.ADV s Smock [Oin/amine />ra/i'nsis, L.) 



and stout, and the plant is sometimes stoloniferous. The stem is, as a 

 rule, round in section, rarely ani^ular, tall and erect. The leaves are 

 pinnate, the lobes arranged each side of a common stalk. The radical 

 leaves have small leaflets rather round and somewhat angular, and are 

 stalked, whilst those of the upper Iea\es are more or less stalklcss, 

 narrow linear or lance-shaped, entire and longer. 



The flowers are large, of a delicate lilac tint, or white. The petals 

 are large, three times as long as the caly.x, spreading, inversely egg- 

 shaped. The stamens are half the length of the petals, and the anthers 

 are yellow. The style is stout and short. The stigma is small. The 

 pod is erect, on a slender, ultimate flower-stalk, long, flattened at the 



