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iV.-POPPIES 
Plants with Milky Sap—Horned Poppy—Greater Celan- 
dine—Welsh Poppy —Red Poppies—Their Common Origin 
—Poppies Honeyless 
V. WALLFLOWER AND CABBAGE 
Sweetness and Rankness Allied—Wallflower—An Im- 
provised Tube—Stocks—The Significance of Round and 
Lobed Stigmas —Transported Water-Cress—Anti-Scorbutics 
—Lady’s Smock—Hedge-Mustards—Wild Cabbage and its 
Cultivated Descendants—The Origin of Garden ‘‘ Greens”’ 
—Shepherd’s Purse well filled—Floral Aristocracy and 
Labour—Hangers-on of Industry—Candytuft and Woad 
VI. VIOLETS AND PANSIES 
Violet’s conspicuous Flowers rarely produce Seeds—Honey 
Guides—Modest and Patient Violets—A Resourceful Plant 
-—Flowers that never Open—Vegetable Sharp-Shooters— 
Wild Pansy—Its Skull-like Stigma and abundant Seeds 
VII. PINKS AND CHICKWEED 
Red Campion: a Day Flower—White Campion: an 
Evening Flower—Their Common Origin—Ragged Robin— 
Bladder Campion and its Insect Enemies—Sea Campion— 
Maiden Pink—Corn-Cockle—The Mouse-Ears—Chickweeds 
and Stitchworts—Sandworts—Catchflies and their Digestive 
Powers 
VII. MALLOWS 
Marsh-Mallow—Common Mallow—Dwarf Mallow—Dif- 
ferences in the Flowers and the Methods of Fertilisation— 
How Honey-Stealers are excluded—Tree Mallow 
IX. GERANIUMS 
Mahomet and the Mallow— Wood Cranc’s-bill—Sprengel’s 
Researches— Meadow Crane’s-bill—Mountain Crane’s-bill— 
Dove’s-foot — Small-flowered Geranium — Round-leaved 
Geranium—Herb Robert—Shining Crane’s-bill—Remark- 
able Seed-shooting Mechanism—Stork’s-bills and their Seed- 
burying—Wood Sorrel and its Sensitive Leaves—More 
Never-opening Flowers—Touch-Me-Not and Jewel-Weed— 
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