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along each branch. The plant diaecious. Fruit an achene, obovate, 

 glabrous, compressed ; pappus pilose, hairs filiform, in several rows. 

 Receptacles chaffy. Flower-heads in corymbs. Lower leaves pinna- 

 tifid or pinnate; upper ones lanceolate; all finely serrate. Stems 

 erect, stiff, slightly branching. Woods and copses, sheltered pastures. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



WOOD SORREL, OXALIS ACETOSELLA. Nat. Ord., Oxalidacea. 

 Calyx of five short ovate sepals, membranous, ciliate, tinged with 

 purple, persistent. Petals five, retuse, ovate-cuneiform, striate with 

 purple veins ; claws small, yellowish. Flowers solitary, fragile look- 

 ing, drooping. Stamens ten, five shorter than the others. Ovary 

 superior, roundish, bearing five erect and filiform styles. Fruit cap- 

 sular, membranous, five-celled, five-valved. Leaves radical, on long, 

 slender, naked petioles; each composed of three equal, entire, obcor- 

 date leaflets, purplish beneath; hairy, spreading, drooping at night. 

 Flower-stems with two ovate, scaly bracts. Boot-stock creeping, 

 jointed, scaly. Woods and shady hedgerows. May. Annual. 



HEATH or LING, CALLUXA VULGARIS. Nat. Ord., Ericacea. 

 Calyx of four coloured lanceolate leaves, much larger than corolla, 

 and accompanied by four external small, ovate, pointed, spreading 

 bracts. Stamens eight ; anthers clustering in a ring round style, and 

 furnished with two appendages. Corolla monopetalous, campanulate, 

 marcescent, purple, deeply divided into four segments, drooping. Style 

 filiform, longer than calyx. Stigma quadrifid. Leaves numerous, 

 small, spurred at base, opposite, sessile, placed round the small 

 branches in four rows. Stem upright, wiry, freely branching. Inflo- 

 rescence racemose. Capsule four-celled, four-valved. Heaths and 

 moors. June, July, August. Perennial. 



HOP TREFOIL, TRIFOLIUM PROCUMBENS. Nat. Ord., Legu- 

 minosa;. Calyx of five unequal teeth. Corolla papilionaceous, petals 

 narrow, cohering by their claws, persistent; the standard deflexed 

 after flowering, and striate. Stamens ten, diadelphous. Ovary one- 

 celled. Style and stigma one. Flowers small, in dense, oval, many- 

 flowered heads, on long axillary peduncles. Pod scarcely projecting 

 beyond calyx, two-valved. Leaves alternate, stipulate, trifoliate, 



