MOUX'IWIX FI.OWKRS gg 



slender stalks. Its foliage is tcrn-likc and often tinned with 

 reddish-brown ; long leaves grow out from the base, and small 

 ones are interspersed w^th the numennis blossoms on the stems. 

 The Contorted Louse wort grows at very high altitudes, 

 being usually found at 7000 feet. 



COMMON PLANTAIN 



riiuitiiii^o major. IManlain Family 



Rootstock short, thick, erect. Leaves: spreading, ovate, entire; spike 

 dense, obtuse at apex. Flowers: perfect, proterogynous: sepals broadlv 

 ovate, scarious on the margins. Fruit : py.xis .seeded, circumsessile near 

 the middle. 



The Common Plantain is so familiar to travellers that it 

 calls for no special description. It has greenish flower-spikes 

 and reddish seeds. 



P. Rugclii, or Pale Plantain, is somewhat similar to the 

 preceding species, but has a slightly broader leaf and a less 

 dense flower-spike. 



LAMB'S QUARTERS 



Chcnopodiiiin album. Goosefoot Family 



Stems: slender, erect, commonly much branched. Leaves: rhombic- 

 ovate, the upper ones lanceolate, obtu.se or acute. Flowers: bractless, 

 densely clustered in a compound panicled .spike; calyx .segments strongly 

 keeled. Fruit: seed firmly attached to the pericarp. 



A weed that abounds near habitation, even in the mountain 

 regions. A commonplace plant, and yet one that is not 

 altogether without beaut}-, since its foliage is of an imusualh- 

 delicate tender green. The white flowers, which grow in 

 dense spikes, are inconspicuous. 



