xii FAMILIAR WILD FLO WEES. 



Ovary simple. Style simple, with a tufting of hair beneath the 

 stignia on the outer side. Peduncles very short. Inflorescence a 

 raceme, few-flowered, starting from the axils of the upper leaves. 

 Fruit a pod. Stem with prominently-projecting longitudinal ridges, 

 one to two feet high, weak, stipuled. Leaves of six or eight pairs 

 of ovate, truncate, mucronate leaves, the leaf-stalk ending in a branch- 

 ing tendril. Woods, hedges. May, June, July. Perennial. 



HERB-ROBERT, GERANIUM ROBERTIAXUM. Nat. Ord., Gera- 

 niacece. Calyx angular, hairy, five-cleft, imbricate in bud, segments 

 erect during flowering, connivent afterwards. Flower of five petals, 

 regular, pink, obovate, entii-e, clawed. Stamens ten. Ovary five- 

 lobed, five-celled, beaked. Fruit of five carpels. Peduncles two- 

 flowered. Leaves in three or five radiating pinnate segments. Stems 

 much branched. Whole plant hairy and strong-smelling, often turning 

 bright red. Brittle. Annual. May, June, July, August, September. 

 Waste ground, hedge-banks, old walls. 



MARSH MARIGOLD, CALTIIA PALUSTBIS. Nat. Ord., 

 Ranunculacete. Sepals ordinarily five, deep yellow, petaloid. Petals 

 wanting. Stamens numerous. Follicles numerous, many-seeded, 

 Stems thick, rooting at lower nodes, branched, erect or sub-erect. 

 Petioles with stipule-like members at the base. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 cordate, orbicular, reniform, crenate. Flowers terminal. A very 

 variable plant. Marshy ground, sides of water-courses. March, April, 

 May. Perennial. 



DAISY, BELLIS PERENXIS. Nat. Ord., Composite. Florets of the 

 disk yellow; florets of the ray white, often more or less tinged 

 with red. Involucre hemispherical, bracts equal, a single row, herba- 

 ceous. Kay-flowers female, ligulate; disk-flowers bi-sexual, tubular. 

 Peduncles bearing single flower-heads, leafless, radical. Receptacle 

 conical, pappus wanting. Leaves, all springing from the root, obovate, 

 spatulate, coarsely toothed, petiolate. Perennial. Meadows and banks. 

 Flowering almost the whole year round, but most freely in the early 



HAWTHORN, CRAT^GUS OXYACAXTHA. Nat. Ord., Rosacea. 

 Calyx-tube urceolaite, five-lobed, non-glandular. Petals five, rounded, 

 white or pink. Flowers fragrant, in sessile corymbs. Stamens many ; 

 the pink anthers very conspicuous. Styles one to three. * Fruit 

 crimson, ovoid, hard, the cells being cartilaginous. Armed with sharp 

 thorns, abortive branches. The leaves very variable in form, petiolate, 



