152 FAMILIAR WILL FLOWERS. 



the blossom is of a dark crimson colour, and the various 

 members of which it is composed terminate in an awn, of 

 which the extremity is curved into a little hook. 



The only other indigenous plant in the genus is the 

 Geum rivalc, or water-avens, a plant of the moors and 

 marshes, a lover of wet, swampy ground one of the plants 

 that fringe our river-banks. Though not by any means a 

 rare plant, it is not so common as the wood-avens, and is 

 much more local in its occurrence. The general character 

 of the leaf is much the same, but the plant may readily 

 be identified by its large, drooping, dull orange blossoms 

 and sombre purple calyx. 



The grass represented in our illustration is the Hordeum 

 pratense, or meadow barley, a plant abundant enough in 

 moist meadows in England, though it is very rarely met 

 with in Scotland, and is by no means common in Ireland. 

 It may very legitimately be introduced in our plate, as 

 it is amongst the long grass that fringes the hedgerow 

 that the avens delights to grow, and where the avens is 

 found the meadow barley will ordinarily be close at hand. 



