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BRITISH FLORA 



club-shaped, roughly hairy. Stigma convex, 

 4-6 rayed. 6-18 in. May-July. Herbaceous 

 annual. 



Rough-headed Poppy (Papaver hybridum, L.). 

 Erect Stem with lew branches. Leaves 2- 

 pinnatifid ; lobes acute or awned. Flowers crim- 

 son or purplish, with dark eye. Filaments swollen 

 above. Capsule rounded, roughly hairy. Stigma 

 convex, 48 rayed. 6-15 in. June-August. 

 Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER I-YMAKI.U-I: v: 



Fine-leaved Fumitory (Fumaria parviflora, 

 Lam.). Stem erect or spreading. Leaves grey- 

 ish or bluish-green. Segments narrow, chan- 

 nelled. Flowers whitish or purple. Raceme dense. 

 Sepals small, triangular- ovate, linear, acute. 

 Flower-stalks equal to bracts, shorter than fruit. 

 Fruit obovate, small-warted. 6-10 in. June- 

 September. 



ORDER COMPOSITE 



Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria t'nodora, L.). 

 Erect or spreading. Stem branched, angular 

 smooth, without barren shoots. Leaves sessile 

 pinnatifid. Segments capillary, pointed. Flower 

 heads terminal, solitary. Involucral bracts Ian 

 ceolate, blunt, with a brown border. Ray white 

 disk yellow. Receptacle ovate, then conical. 

 Fruit rough, with two glands on the outer side 

 below the entire raised border. Scent faint or nil. 

 i-ijft. June-October. Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER CONVOLVULACE^ 

 Clover Dodder (Cuscuta Trifolii, Bab.). 

 On Clover. Differs from Heath Dodder chiefly in 

 having yellowish-white flowers and yellow apicu- 

 late anthers. 1-3 ft. August. 



ORDER OROBANCHACE^E 



Orobanche ramosa, L. On Hemp. Stern 

 branched. Calyx tubular; calyx-teeth 4, triangular- 

 ovate, pointed. Corolla ^-in., blue. Anthers 

 smooth. 4-8 in. Annual. Rare. 



Great Broom -Rape (Orobanche reticulafa, 

 Wall.). On Thistles. Sepals simple, hairy only at 

 the base. Corolla white or yellowish. Filaments 

 glandular, hairy above. 1-3 ft. July. Perennial. 

 Yorkshire. Very rare. 



ORDER ILLECEBRACEJE 



Annual Knawel (Scleranthus annuus, L.). 

 Stems much branched, dichotomous, slender. 

 Leaves bent back, often white below. Flowers 

 green, solitary below, forming a dense corymb 

 above. Calyx-lobes acute, with narrow mem- 

 branous border ; spreading and lo-nerved in fruit. 

 2-8 in. June-September. Herbaceous annual or 

 biennial. 



ORDER GRAMINACE/E 



Rye Grass (Lolium mulliflorum, Lam.). No 

 barren shoots, and not tufted (difference from L. 

 italicum). Paler than L. perenne. Ligule short, 

 abrupt. 9-14 flowers in each spikelet. Lower 

 palea with long awn. 1-2 ft. June. Annual. 

 Cultivated. 



SEA-COASTS 



ORDER CRUCIFER* 



English Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia anglica, L.). 

 Differs from Common Scurvy Grass as follows : 

 Much larger. Radical leaves not cordate. Stem- 

 leaves half -clasping. Pod oblong, obovoid, 

 deeply furrowed. Style slender. 10-18 in. May. 

 Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER CARVOPHYLLACE/E 



Pink (Dian/hus gallicus, Pers.). Like the 

 Cheddar Pink in habit and size. Lower part of 

 stem with small papillate hairs. Leaves with 

 fine marginal teeth. Calyx longer, cylindrical. 

 Flowers dark-rose. Petals with long, irregular, 

 sub-linear, blunt lobes. Sand-dunes, Jersey. 

 July-September. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER LEGUMINOS^E 



Yellow Vetch (Vicia lutea, L.). Sufficiently 

 characterized by the solitary or paired sessile 

 pale-yellow flowers. Calyx-teeth unequal, upper 

 shorter, lower longer than the calyx-tube. Pod 

 turned back, with bulbous hairs. 6-18 in. June- 

 August. Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER CRASSULACE^: 



Sedum Drucei, Grasbner. The common Briti.sli 

 form, previously included in Sedum acre, L. 

 The genuine 5. acre is stouter, more erect, and 

 tufted, with thicker leaves; according to Osten- 

 felde, it is found in Stirlingshire. S. Drucei is 

 common on shores, also inland on rocks, walls, 

 and dry sandy soil. 



ORDER CHENOPODIACE^E 



Shrubby Orache (Atriplex ffalimus, L.). 

 Recently established on the south coast. Branches 

 white. Leaves rhomboidal, silvery. Otherwise 

 like A. hortensis. 2-6 ft. July - September. 

 Perennial evergreen shrub. 



ORDER POLYGONACE^ 



Rumex rupestris, Le Gall. Radical - leaves 

 oblong. Stem-leaves strap-shaped, rounded, and 

 narrowed at both ends. Bracts few, narrow. 

 Panicle tapering; whorls rather close. Sepals 

 large, with nearly parallel sides, narrow, ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, entire. A very large tubercle on 

 each perianth-lobe. Nuts ovate, acute. 1-3 ft. 

 June -September. Herbaceous perennial. South- 

 west coast. Rare. 



ORDER GRAMINACE^E 



Kaeleria albescens, DC. Differs mainly from 

 K. gracilis, Pers., in having the leaves rolled 

 lengthwise. 6-18 in. June. Herbaceous peren- 

 nial. Dorset and Channel Islands. Very rare. 



WOODS AND COPSES 



ORDER FUMARIACE.S 



Capnoides bulbosa, DC. Erect. Rootstock 

 tuberous, solid. Stem stout, simple. Leaves 



