12G WILD FLOWEfcS OF STJHMEB. 



dance of seeds, and the habit of the plant is to climb 

 the corn-blades and drag them down. Sometimes the 

 leaves of the climbing buckwheat are mistaken for the 

 sweet-scented small Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), 

 whose pink bells and twisted shoots and leaves are 

 common on road-sides as well as in corn-fields. 



Where the soil is sandy the Hare's-foot Trefoil 

 (Trifolium arvense) is common. It may be known by 

 its small whitish head being covered with silky-looking 

 grey hairs. The Corn Spurrey (Spergula arvensis) will 

 not be far off, though it sometimes does not bloom 

 until later. This pretty flower grows on a stem about 

 eight inches high. The leaves are scarcely thicker than 

 threads, and grow in a whorl round the stem, which is 

 thickened at the joints. The white flowers are not 

 dissimilar to those of the chickweed, and grow in a 

 loose panicle. Cattle are fond of the plant, though it 

 is so little liked by the farmers that some of them call 

 it pickpocket. In Scotland the plant is called yarr. 

 It bears abundance of seeds, which it freely scatters, 

 as its name implies. These are, however, but the 

 smaller flowers of the field, and the Corn Gromwell 

 (JLithospcrnnim arvense) is but little more conspicuous, 

 with its narrow-pointed hairy leaves and white flowers 



