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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



it ia recorded to have been found near Berkhampstead, Herts, and 

 near Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire. 



The Pasque Mower, A. Pulsatilla, is not plentiful, but some- 

 what widely distributed ; so a search for it on a chalk-down, or 

 dry pasture, may not prove a mere wild-goose chase. It may be 

 instantly known by the merest novice, so distinct is it in character ; 

 the flower bell-shaped, and of a dull violet hue, the leaves all 

 springing from the root, and cut into narrow segments. It is but a 

 step from these to the Pheasant's Eye, or Corn Adonis, Adonis 

 autumnalis, which begins to flower during May in the open fields, 

 and will continue flowering until October. 



It is impossible to hunt in a good country now without finding 

 some of our native orchids, the characters of which will perhaps 



LEAVES OF COMMON WOODBTJTF, ARRANGED IN A WH0E1. 



equally delight and puzzle the young botanist, such as the Monkey 

 Orchis, Orchis macro, ; the Pyramidical Orchis, O. pyramidalis ; 

 the Bee Orchis, Ophri/s apifera, an extremely handsome imitative 

 flower ; and the Spotted Palmate Orchis, Orchis maculata, the best 

 known of all, and not the least beautiful. 



As we have near upon forty native species of Orchids, the be- 

 ginner in field botany must not expect to make acquaintance with 

 the whole of them without exercising much patience and perse- 

 verance. They haunt copses, hedgerows, chalky downs, quarries, 

 and railway cuttings. A few of them are beautiful, many of them 

 are curious, all are interesting, and indeed there is not in these 

 islands a tribe of plants more worthy of attentive study, both for 

 their intrinsic merits as constituents of the British Flora, and their 

 relations to the more gorgeous Orchids of the tropics which we 

 cultivate with so much care in our hothouses. 



