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exstipulate, tipper sessile, lower ones stalked, slightly rough, hairy, 

 veining prominent. Inflorescence loosely paniculate. Stem cylindrical, 

 swollen at sides. In moist woods, copses, and hedgerows. Flowers 

 during June and July. Perennial. 



SPINDLE TREE, EUOXYMUS EUROPMU*. Nat. Ord., Celas- 

 traced'. Calyx small, flattened out, having four broad short lobes. 

 Petals four, pale green, obovate, rising from flat, fleshy disk. Stamens 

 four, alternating with petals, inserted on disk. Flowers in loose, 

 axillary cymes. Ovary immersed in disk, style very short. Capsule 

 four-lobed, pink, containing large seeds in orange-coloured arillodiurn. 

 Leaves glabrous, opposite, lanceolate, finely toothed. Stems smooth, 

 green, tough. A shrub, about five feet high. Woods and hedgerows. 

 Flowers in May and June. 



BUXBAUM'S SPEEDWELL, VERONICA BUXBAUMIT. Nat. 

 Ord., Scrophulariacece. Calyx persistent round fruit, four-lobed. Corolla 

 deciduous, monopetalous, rotate, irregular, four-lobed, pale blue. 

 Stamens two, inserted in tube of corolla. Stigma two-lobed. Ovary 

 and capsule two-seeded. Capsule-lobes broad and laterally spreading, 

 twice as broad as long. Inflorescence axillary. Stems procumbent, 

 hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, cordate, deeply serrate, much 

 shorter than the flower-stalks that spring from their axils, hairy. 

 Cultivated ground, rubbish-heaps, and road-sides. Flowers throughout 

 the summer. Annual. 



GREEN HELLEBORE, IIELLEBORUS VIHIDIS. Nat. Ord. 

 Ranunculacece. Calyx of five large, persistent, conspicuous, spreading 

 sepals. Petals eight to ten, very small, tubular. Stamens numerous. 

 Carpels many-seeded. Flowers few in number and drooping. Fruit a 

 follicle. Upper leaves sessile, the lower leaves large, divided into 

 numerous segments, on long footstalks, all palmate and broadly spread- 

 ing, of a dull bluish green, glossy surface, deeply serrate. Stem short, 

 freely branching. On pasture-lands, in copses, and often about old 

 walls, ruins, and human habitations, preferably on chalk. Flowers in 

 March and April. Perennial. 



