

SUMMAEY. 



IN the following pages it is our intention to give a brief epitome of 

 each of the plants represented in this volume. We give these details 

 of the various plants in the same order as the plants themselves have 

 succeeded each other. The recognised botanical sequence would in 

 some respects have been preferable, but the present arrangement will 

 at least have the advantage of enabling any of our readers readily to 

 turn to the body of the book and find any particular plant, and thus 

 to obtain fuller details and its pictorial presentment. 



In our Summary we have availed ourselves largely of the writings 

 of such masters of botanical science as Hooker, Lindley, and Bentham. 

 All that can be said has been so accurately laid down by such men, 

 that to strive after originality would be but to leave the true path, 

 and, while escaping the charge of building on the foundations of 

 others, to incur the greater responsibility of misleading those whom 

 we profess to guide. 



The necessities of our limited space have made great condensation 

 necessary ; we have therefore only taken the more salient points. 



FIELD CONVOLVULUS, or SMALL BINDWEED, 



CONVOLVULUS ARVEMIS. Nat. Ord., Convolvulacece. Calyx of five sepals, 

 small, broad, and unequal. Corolla campanulate, rose-coloured and 

 white. Stamens five, long filaments, inserted at base of tube of corolla- 

 Style filiform ; stigmas two, linear. Capsule two-celled, each cell con- 

 taining two seeds. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate, sagittate, lobes 

 often very acute, very variable in form. Peduncle axillary, one or two- 

 flowered ; bracts small and at some distance from flowers. Growth 

 twining or prostrate. Corn-fields, gardens, and hedgerows. June, July, 

 August. Perennial. 



FIELD-ROSE, ROSA ARrENSIS. Nat. Ord., Rosacece. Calyx 

 leafy, five sepals, imbricated in buds. Corolla of five petals, scentless, 

 white. Flowers ordinarily growing in a cluster at the ends of the 



