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BRITISH FLORA 



Asch. Leaves triangular-hastate, slightly toothed, 

 smooth. Flowers in a naked spike. Fruit red, 

 succulent, like a small strawberry. 6 in. -2 ft. 

 July -September. Herbaceous annual. 



Chenopodium leptophyllum, Nutt. Differs from 

 C. album, L., in smaller size and very narrow 

 linear leaves. 



Garden Orache (Atriplex horttnsis, L.). Erect. 

 Leaves triangular-cordate, toothed, green, opaque. 

 Calyx more or less rounded, entire. 1-3 ft. July- 

 October. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER POLYGONACE^B 



Polygonttm cuspidal urn, S. & Z. Stoloniferous. 

 Erect. Leaves broadly cordate, with long, imrro-.v 

 abrupt point. Flowers greenish-white. 3-6 ft. 

 August. Herbaceous perennial. Japanese. 



ORDER URTICACE.* 



Hemp (Cannabis saliva, L.). Erect. Stem 

 stout, furrowed, hairy, rigid, fibrous. Leaves 

 opposite, stalked, digitate, toothed, rough, glan- 

 dular. Flowers green. 1-3 ft. July-September. 

 Herbaceous annual. Dioecious. 



Roman Nettle (Urtica pilulifera, L.). Leaves 

 ovate, coarsely toothed. Flowers green, futile 

 ones in globular heads. 1-3 ft. June-August. 

 Herbaceous annual. Sting very venomous. Said 

 to have been introduced by the Romans. 



ORDER LILIACE^E 



Allium paradoxum, Don. Leaves channelled, 

 rolled inwards above. Scape leafy below. Flowers 

 white. Corolla bell-shaped, with elliptic, blunt 

 segments. 6-12 in. July. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Siberian. 



ORDER GRAMINACE.S 



Finger Grass (Panicum sanguinale, L.). As- 

 cending. Leaves and sheaths hairy. Spikelets 

 one-sided on digitate spikes. Flowering glumes 

 awnless. 6-12 in. July. Herbaceous annual. 



Millet Grass (Panicum miliaceum, L.). Erect. 

 Leaves large, soft. Panicle drooping, tinged with 

 dark-brown. 1-2 ft. July -September. Her- 

 baceous annual. 



Phlettm paniciilatitm, Huds. Glumes wedge- 

 shaped; lateral ribs not conspicuous. Panicle 

 cylindrical, slender. 6-12 in. June. Herbaceous 

 annual. Rare. 



Bromus tectorum, L. Erect. Stem downy. 

 Awn short, as long as outer glumes. Flowers in 



a one-sided panicle. Spikelets small. 9-15 in. 

 June. Herbaceous annual. Rare. 



Bromus sgtiarrosus, L. Panicle simple, droop- 

 ing. Flowers nearly smooth, overlapping. Spike- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, somewhat flattened. Lower 

 palea 9-ribbed. Awn twisted, spreading. 1-2 ft. 

 June-August. Herbaceous annual. 



Bromus patulus, M. & K. ( = B. japonicus, 

 Thunb.). Panicle compound, spreading, branches 

 turned back finally. Spikelets lanceolate. Lower 

 palea 7-ribbed. 9-15 in. June-Augfust. Her- 

 baceous annual. 



MARSHES, BOGS, ETC. 



ORDER VIOLACEJE 



Large Bog Violet (Viola montana, L.). Root- 

 stock creeping. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, long, 

 narrowed gradually from below. Flowers nearly 

 circular, bluish-white or pale-blue. Spur green. 

 6-12 in. April-June. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Fens, Hunts. 



ORDER VACCINIACE.S 



American Cranberry (Oxycoccos macrocarpiiS, 

 Pers.). Creeping. Leaves oblong; margins flat. 

 Flowers red, lateral. Fruit large, globular. July. 

 Perennial shrub. Flintshire bogs. 



ORDER JUNCACE^E 



Obtuse-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus, 

 Schrank =/. obtusiflorus, Ehrh.). Erect. Stem 

 round in section. Leaves septate, hollow, round 

 in section. Flowers in a spreading cyme with 

 zigzag branches. Perianth-segments blunt, pale, 

 as long as the narrow-pointed capsule. 1-3 ft. 

 July. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER CYPERACE/E 



Brown Bog-rush (Schoenus ferrugineus, L.). 

 Tufted. Stems grooved. Spikelets 1-3, lateral, 

 slender, nearly equalling the erect sheathing 

 bracts. 4-8 in. June. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Perthshire bogs. 



Soft Brown Sedge (Carex dislicha, Huds. = C. 

 intermedia, Good.). Soboles far-reaching. Stems 

 erect, equalling leaves. Spike nearly unisexual. 

 Spikelets in an oblong interrupted spike, in two 

 rows. Upper and lower fertile, intermediate bar- 

 ren. Fruit ovoid-lanceolate, with narrow wing, 

 longer than glumes. 1-2 ft. June. Herbaceous 

 perennial. 



