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an elongated tube, five-cleft, irregular. Flowers in heads, sessile. 

 Stamens five. Style filiform, and stigma capitate. Fruit a berry, 

 growing in red clusters. Leaves ovate, glabrous above and downy 

 beneath ; the lower ones stalked, the upper sessile ; in pairs, entire. 

 Stems long, woody, climbing. Woods and hedges. June, July, August, 

 September. Perennial. 



SUCCORY, CICHOBIUM INTYBUS. Nat. Ord., Composite. All 

 the florets with ligulate corollas, and having both stamens and pistils ; 

 light blue. Stamens five. Ovary one. Style one, bifid. Pappus 

 sessile, scaly. Involucre of eight bracts, having at their base a few 

 smaller ones spreading out. Flower-heads in close sessile cluster 

 along the stems. Achenes numerous, slightly ribbed. Leaves very 

 various in form : lower leaves spreading, pinnatifid, runcinate ; upper 

 leaves small, embracing stem, entire or slightly serrate. Stems erect, 

 freely branching, rigid, furrowed. Boot large. Dry waste ground, 

 especially on sand or chalk. July, August, September. Perennial. 



PIMPERNEL, ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS. Nat. Ord., Primulacece. 

 Calyx of five sepals, deeply cleft. Corolla scarlet, rotate, regular, five- 

 lobed. Stamens five, the filaments fringed with short hairs. Pistil 

 filiform, short ; and stigma capitate. Capsule superior, opening trans- 

 versely. Flowers axillary. Leaves in pairs, ovate, sessile, the under 

 surfaces covered with. dark spots, entire. Stems much branched, 

 erect or procumbent. Arable land, gardens, and waste places. May, 

 June, July, Augusts September, October. Annual. 



BROOKLIME, VERONICA BECCABUNGA. Nat. Ord., Scrophu- 

 lariacece. Calyx four-cleft. Corolla monopetalous, four-cleft, rotate, 

 the lower segment much narrower than the others, tube very short, 

 fugacious ; bright blue. Stamens two. Stigma tifro-lobed. Capsule 

 two-celled, shorter than calyx, notched at summit. Inflorescence 

 axillary, racemose. Leaves ovate, subserrate, thick, glossy, stalked. 

 Stems thick, succulent, rooting at the joints, procumbent ; flowering 

 stems ascending. The whole plant glabrous. Water-courses. May, 

 June, July, August, September. Perennial. 



SCENTLESS MAYWEED, MATRICARIA INODORA. Nat. 

 Ord., Composites. Outer florets ligulate, white; florets of the disk 

 numerous, small, yellow, tubular. Receptacle naked, hemispherical. 

 Flower-heads large, and on long terminal peduncles. Involucre covered 

 with imbricated and scaly bracts. Achene ribbed conspicuously. 



