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branches. Stamens numerous. Styles united in a column. Fruit 

 globular. Leaves shining ; leaflets five to seven, serrated. Branches 

 long, very trailing (hence plant sometimes called trailing dog-rose), 

 slender, purplish ; hooked prickles. Woods, hedgerows, and thickets. 

 Flowers throughout the summer. 



MEADOW CRANE'S - BILL, GERANIUM PRATEXSE. Nat. 

 Ord., Geraniacece. Calyx of five sepals, imbricate in aestivation, per- 

 sistent. Petals five, large, bluish-purple. The inflorescence pani- 

 culate. Stamens ten, five short and five long, some often antherless. 

 Ovary five-lobed, terminating in a long beak and five stigmas. Leaves 

 large, divided into five or seven leaflets, coarsely serrated ; all leaves 

 on petioles, those of the radical leaves very long. Stems forking, 

 swollen at the nodes, about three feet high. Capsule smooth, com- 

 posed of five carpels; pedicels bearing fruit deflexed. Kootstock 

 perennial. Moist meadows and woods. 



SILVERWEED, POTEXTILLA ANSERIXA. Nat. Ord., Rosacece. 

 Calyx of ten divisions, the alternate ones being outside the others> 

 and often somewhat smaller. Corolla of five petals, bright yellow. 

 Flowers solitary on slender axillary peduncles, springing from the 

 rooting nodes. Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous. Leaves 

 interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets deeply serrate ; alternate leaflets very 

 small ; both upper and under surfaces often thickly covered with grey 

 and silky hairs. Stoloniferous. Eoadsides, damp pasturage. May, 

 June, July. Perennial. 



APPLE, PYRUS MALUS. Nat. Ord., Rosacece. Calyx-tube ad- 

 hering to ovary and urceolate, the upper part five-cleft, woolly. 

 Corolla of five petals, pink and white. Stamens numerous. Styles 

 united at base. Flowers clustered together in an umbel. Fruit fleshy, 

 globose, having five coriaceous two-seeded cells. Leaves stalked, ovate, 

 finely serrate, slightly downy when young. A shrub or small tree. 

 Hedges and woods. Flowering in spring, and the fruit yellow, mature 

 in autumn, but very austere and sharp. 



BORAGE, BORAGO OFFIC1KALIS. Nat. Ord., Boraginacece, Calyx 

 of five segments, very deeply cleft. Corolla rotate, monopetalous, 

 five-cleft, tube very short, throat closed by short scales. Stamens five ; 

 filaments short ; anthers purplish-black, growing together in a conical 

 form in the centre of the flower. Style filiform. Fruit a nutlet. In- 

 florescence terminal and axillary cymose. Leaves alternate, exstipulate ; 

 stem-leaves obovaie, having petioles ; the upper leaves sessile, waved, 



