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whitish green. Stamens five. Style short; stigmas lobed. Ovary 

 globular, one-celled. Fruit a berry. Leaves deeply divided into five 

 or seven lobes, rough, coarsely-serrated. Tendrils. Stems long, 

 climbing, hairy, branched, weak. Boot, tuberous, large, often 

 branched ; white. Hedges and copses. All the summer. Perennial. 



STORK'S-BILL, ERODIUMCICUTARIUM. Nat. Ord., Geraniaceae. 

 Calyx of five sepals. Petals five, regular, obovate ; pink. Inflorescence 

 umbellate. Stamens ten, five being sterile and rudimentary. Stigmas 

 five. Ovary five-lobed. Carpels awned. Leaves pinnate, having their 

 segments deeply pinnatifid, serrated, stalked, radical. Stems erect, 

 hairy, variable in length. Waste ground and roadsides. June, July, 

 August, September. Annual. 



MULLEIN, VERBASCUM THAPSUS. Nat. Ord., Scrophulariacece. 

 Calyx deeply cleft into five. Corolla of five broad, rounded lobes, 

 rotate, irregular ; bright yellow. Tube of flower short. Inflorescence a 

 dense raceme. Stamens five, having three of the filaments covered 

 with yellowish soft hairs. Capsule two-celled, septiadal, ovoid 

 opening in two valves. Seeds small, very numerous. Style simple 

 Leaves decurrent, very woolly on both sides, ovate, slightly serrate 

 alternate. Stem simple, or slightly branched below; erect. Hedge- 

 banks and waste ground. June, July, August. Biennial. 



NODDING THISTLE, CARDUUS NUTASS. Nat Ord., Com- 

 positce. Involucre imbricated with spiny scales, outer ones spreading, 

 globular, large, slightly woolly. Florets equal, tubular; crimson. 

 Flower-heads large, drooping, at times solitary; or inflorescence 

 corymbose. Pappus pilose. Leaves deeply pinnatifid, spinous, 

 prickly, decurrent. Stem firm, erect, very slightly branching, more or 

 less covered with cotton-like hairs. Two to three feet high. Waste 

 ground, in dry and poor soils. All the summer. Biennial. 



MEA.DOW VETCHLING, LATHYRUS PRATENSIS. Nat. 

 Ord., Leguminosce. Calyx oblique, upper segments shortest. Corolla 

 papilionaceous; yellow. Stamens diadelphous. Inflorescence a raceme. 

 Style one ; stigma one. Ovary one-celled. Fruit a pod or legume, 

 two-valved, many-seeded, glabrous. Stipules large, sagittate. Leaf- 

 lets lanceolate, in pairs. Tendrils long and branched, terminating 

 leaf-stalk. Stem angled, weak, much-branchel, climbing. Hedges, 

 in damp meadows, and low-lying pastures. July, August. Perennial. 



