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SON’CHUS. 
Flower-stalks, and base of the bracts round the flower- 
heads, covered with gland-tipped hairs. 
gaicid plant; heads 1-14 inch across; leaves with short, 
wide auricles at their base. } 
L arven'sis. Corn Sowthistle. 
Rare marsh plant; heads 3-1 inch; leaves with 
narrow, pointed auricles. ) 
palus'tris.” 
Flower-stalks and bracts with few, scattered hairs, or- 
none; heads under 1 inch across. 
olera’ceus. Common Wanshiie? 
SPARGA’NIUM. 
Plant with branches, each of which bears more than one~ 
| head of ovaries or stamens. 
ramo’sum. Sur-reed. 
Plant without branches, the heads all attached (with or 
without stalks) to the main stem. 
Stem and leaves usually erect; several upper heads 
bearing stamens. } 
simplex. 
Leaves floating; usually only a single head with) 
stamens. minimum ) 
SPIRAYA. 
Leaves oval or oblong, toothed, not divided into leaflets ;, 
a shrub. J 
salicifo'lia. 
Leaves divided into leaflets ; herbs. 
gus with rather few, wide leaflets, white underneath; 
| flowers sweet-scented. } 
[ Ulma'ria. Meadow-sweet. 
Leaves with numerous, narrow leaflets, not white 
underneath ; flowers scarcely scented. ) 
Filipen’dula. Dropwo ae 
SPIRAN’THES. 
Flowering-stem with only little scale-like leaves, with or 
without a tuft of short leaves at its side (Left-hand | 
figure). autumnalis. Lady’s 7 esses. 
Flowering stem with narrow leaves, 2-5 inches long,~ 
surrounding its base. (Right-hand figure). 
eestiva'lis. 
