138 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 
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leaves being coarsely veined, and moved by heliotropic tendency to 
turn towards the sun, on each aspect towards the greatest source of light. 
The plant smells strongly of garlic, especially when the leaves are 
bruised, quite as much as Ramsons. 
Ali the leaves are 
borne on long foot- 
stalks, and the broad, 
deep teeth give their 
leaves a notched ap- 
pearance, 
The flowers are 
white and small, the 
petals are stalked and 
inversely egg-shaped. 
The pods are linear, 
slightly curved  up- 
ward, longer than the 
stalks, rounded, biloc- 
ular, and 2-valved. 
The plant is 2-3 
ft. high, and flowers 
from May to June. 
It is perennial, and 
deciduous and_herb- 
aceous. 
It has 4 honey- 
glands as in the 
Cuckoo - flower, and 
the honey forms into 
four drops in the 
middle of the flower, 
forming inwards," from 
Photo. Rey. C. A. Hall 
Sauce ALONE (Sisymbrium Alliaria, Scop.) the base of the short 
stamens. The drops 
lie between the long and short stamens, and at length fill the lower 
part of the space between the stamens and pistil, adhering firmly to 
it. There are none where the abortive or functionless stamens should 
be. The sepals in bud protect the parts, and being white, attract 
insects, and when the flowers open, they fall. The anthers open 
' Causing, it may be, the sepals to drop early. This does not happen where the nectar is formed 
between the stamens and sepals, or outwards. 
