CONTENTS 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. Introduction — General Characters of Plants and 



THE Identification of Flowers 1 



II. The Pollination and Fertilisation of Flowers 25 



III. Climbing Plants 30 



IV. Early Spring 39 



V. Woods and Thickets in Spring 48 



VI. The Spring-flowering Trees and Shrubs of 



Woods, Thickets, and Hedgerows .... 61 



VII. Waysides and Wastes in Spring 81 



VIII. Meadows, Fields, and Pastures — Spring .... 108 



IX. Bogs, Marshes, and Wet Places in Spring ... 123 



X. W^ooDS AND Thickets in Summer 130 



XI. Wastes and Waysides in Summer 151 



XII. Wastes and Waysides in Summer — Composite 



Flowers 175 



XIII. Wastes and Waysides in Summer — coiitinued . . 190 



XIV. Meadows, Fields, and Pastures — Summer . . .211 

 XV. Bogs, Marshes, and Wet Places — Summer . . . 236 



XVI. On Heath, Down, and Moor 257 



XVII. In the Corn Field 281 



XVIII. On the Chalk 296 



XIX. By the River Side 312 



XX. On Walls, Rocks, and Stony Places 318 



XXI. Field and Wayside in Autumn 328 



