180 WILD FLO WEES OF SUMMED. 



Highlanders, the Spignel or Mew (Meum athamanti- 

 cum), whose fine hairy leaflets cluster round the 

 somewhat tall and ragged flower-stalk, which bears 

 somewhat numerous umbels of yellow-tinted flowers. 

 The plant is aromatic, and the root, which is shaped 

 like a small carrot, is frequently chewed as a carmi- 

 native. The Alpine Meadow Hue (Thalictrum Alpi- 

 nujii) has leaves shaped like the garden rue, but much 

 brighter in colour. Its slight stem droops gracefully 

 when it bears its white blossoms with their some- 

 what conspicuous stamens. The Alpine Lady's Mantle 

 (Alchemilla Alpina) is an elegant plant, with clusters 

 of yellowish-green flowers. The root-leaves are beau- 

 tifully divided into five-fingered leaflets, covered with 

 lustrous white satin-like down. The Common Lady's 

 Mantle (A. Vulgaris) is far more common, and may be 

 found in numbers of our hilly pastures. Its flower 

 is somewhat similar to the Alpine variety, but its 

 leaves not only lack their beauty, but are in shape 

 not unlike the common mallow. 



The change in the calendar has turned the pretty 

 Milkwort (folygala vulgaris), the Rogation or pro- 

 cession flower of our ancestors, like many old spring 

 flowers, into a summer flower, for it is seldom now in 



