FLOWEES OF THE FIELD, 7o 



yellow butterfly-shaped flowers, and single-seeded 

 kidney-shaped seed-vessels, turn black when ripe, and 

 hence its name. 



As the season advances, the small Bugloss (Anchusa 

 arvensis) shows its bright blue flowers in many a corn- 

 field. It is a bee-loved flower; its foliage is rough 

 and prickly. The roots contain a great quantity of 

 mucilage. It can hardly be mistaken for any other 

 flower of the field. The flowers are white in the centre. 

 The Best Harrow (Ononis arvensis) begins to show 

 its pink butterfly-shaped blossom at the same time ; 

 but good husbandry has banished this pretty plant 

 from the corn-fields to the waste ground, where we 

 pli.ill find if. 



