WOODS AND THICKETS IN SPRING 



One of our earliest spring flowers of the wood is the lovely 

 Daffodil or Lent Lily {Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus) of the order 

 Amarijllidaceoe. This plant develops from a bulb — an underground 

 bud formed of thick, fleshy leaves ; and the flowers appear during 

 March and April. The perianth is composed of a tube and six 



spreading limbs of a 

 delicate yellow colour ; 

 and a deep,bell-shaped, 

 golden coronet, beauti- 

 fully notched and 

 curled at the rim. 



During April and 

 May we meet with the 

 beautiful little Wood 

 Anemone {Anernone 

 nemoro sa — order 

 Ranunculaceoi), often 

 in such abundance that 

 the ground beneath 

 the trees is completely 

 covered by its grace- 

 ful leaves and flowers. 

 The leaves are radical, 

 stalked, and deeply 

 lobed, springing from 

 an underground stem. 

 On the flower stalk, 

 some distance below 

 the flower, is a whorl 

 TUE DAFFODIL. ^^ stalkcd bracts of 



