SUMMAEY. 



IT should be prefaced that this Summary merely professes to give a 

 brief epitome of each of the plants represented in this volume, and 

 that it is principally a condensation from the writings of Hooker, 

 Lindley, Bentham, or other authorities on the subject.* 



CLUSTERED BELL-FLOWER, CAMPANULA GLOMERATA. 

 Nat Ord., Campannlacece. Calyx adherent to ovary, having five teeth. 

 Corolla regular, campanulate, purple, five-lobed. Stamens five, inserted 

 at base of corolla. Anthers distinct. Style single, cleft at summit 

 into three stigmas. Ovary inferior. Capsule opening at base. Flowers 

 closely sessile in the axils of the upper leaves and forming a compact 

 terminal cluster. Eadical leaves large and stalked, rough, hairy, ovate, 

 toothed ; upper leaves sessile, ovate, toothed, rough, hairy, clasping 

 stem by their bases. Stalk erect, wiry, angular, varying from an inch 

 or two to a foot or more in length, hairy. Found in dry pasturage and 

 hedge-banks. Flowers throughout the summer. Perennial. 



SALLOW, SALIXCAPREA. Nat. Ord., Amentacece. Flowers dioe- 

 cious, the males in dense cylindrical, sessile, silky, fragrant catkins, the 

 females also in catkins, but green and more openly arranged in the 

 catkin. Flowering before the appearance of the leaves. Stamens two 

 in each flower. Anthers two-celled, bright yellow, conspicuous. Scales 

 of catkins entire. Perianth wanting. Stigmas two. Capsules pedi- 

 cellate, silky, one-celled, beaked. Stipules large. Leaves stipulate, 

 alternate, roundish-ovate, wrinkled, whitish beneath. A small, bushy 

 tree. Flowers in early spring. In woods and hedgerows, ordinarily in 

 drier situations than most of the other species of the willow. 

 * See Prefatory Note to the Summary, Series I. 



