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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



The flowers are rather large, on long terminal stalks, with a calyx of 

 five yellowish-green, concave sepals ; and a very bright yellow 

 corolla. The carpels are ovate, sUghtly flattened, smooth, 

 arranged in a globular head ; and the fruits are also smooth. The 



plant flowers 



during June and 

 July. 



Another 

 ' Buttercup' — 

 the Pale Hairy 

 Crowfoot (i?. Tiir- 

 sutus) is to be 

 seen in our pas- 

 tures; and 

 though not so 

 common as the 

 three just men- 

 tioned, it is very 

 generally distri- 

 buted in England 

 and the South of 

 Scotland. It 

 seldom exceeds a 

 foot in height, 

 and flowers from 

 June to the end 

 of the summer. 

 Its stem is erect, 

 hairy, and freely 

 branched ; and 

 its leaves are 

 much like those 

 of the Bulbous 

 Buttercup (p. 110). The flowers, however, are smaller and more 

 numerous than those of the latter, and are of a paler yellow 

 colour ; but the sepals are bent back on the flower-stalk as in this 

 species. The fruits are rough when quite ripe, with little tubercles 

 along the margins. 



Cruciferous flowers are not at all abundant in fields and meadows 

 during the summer months, but one species — the Gold of Pleasure 

 (Camelina saliva) — may be seen in the flax-fields of South Britain 



THE Gold op Pleasure. 



