OO WILD FLOAVEES OF SPUING. 



ledon umbilicus). Its thick, round, fleshy leaf is 

 depressed in the centre, where the foot-stalk joins it. 

 In favourable spots its round flower-stem grows a 

 foot high, but generally it is much shorter. The pale 

 yellowish-green flowers cluster round the stem. It is 

 common in all rocky mining districts, but is compara- 

 tively rare in the Midlands. 



Amongst the earliest of spring flowers, but from its 

 rarity placed last, is the Wild Tulip (Tulipa sylvestris) . 

 It is a small greenish-yellow .flower, somewhat like a 

 lily, and is found principally in old chalk-pits, where 

 it propagates itself by means of a long fibre from the 

 root, which produces a new bulb at some distance 

 from the parent plant. 



