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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



small species, rarely exceeding four or five inches in height, common 

 on walls in most parts of Britain, flowering from April to July. 

 The whole plant is usually more or less tinged with red, and its erect 

 stem is covered with fine glandular haks. The radical leaves 

 are very small, stalked, and undivided ; those of the upper part 

 of the stem are also small and entire, but sessile ; and the inter- 

 mediate leaves, lower on the stem, are palmately divided into three 



or five narrow seg- 

 ments. The small 

 white flowers are 

 placed singly on 

 rather long terminal 

 and axillary stalks ; 

 and the hairy calyx, 

 which adheres to the 

 ovary, has five blunt 

 lobes less than haK 

 the length of the 

 petals. 



Our last example 

 of this order is the 

 Cut-leaved or Mossy 

 Saxifrage [S. hyjmo- 

 ides), a very variable 

 plant, from tlu-ee to 

 ten inches high, 

 rather rare in South 

 England, but much 

 more common in the 

 rocky parts of North 

 England and Scotland, It has numerous procumbent, barren 

 stems with tufted leaves; and erect flowering stems bearing a few 

 small leaves and a loose cyme of a few white flowers. Most of the 

 leaves are narrow, pointed, entire, about a quarter of an inch long ; 

 but the larger ones, at the base of the plant, are about twice as 

 long, and divided into three or five narrow lobes. The calyx 

 adheres to the ovary to about two-thirds of the length of the 

 latter, and has five lobes about one-third as long as the petals. 

 This species flowers from May to July. 



Old walls, ruins, and hmestone cliffs are frequently adorned 

 with the pretty flowers of the Snapdi-agon {Antirrhinum majus — 



The Wall Pellitory, 



