xii FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



the flowering is over. Stem slender, procumbent, rooting at the lower 

 nodes. Woods and copses. May to September. Perennial. 



YELLOW ROCKET, BARBABKA VULGAHIS. Nat. Ord., Cru- 

 cifera: Calyx of four sepals, slightly bigibbous. Corolla small, bright 

 yellow, of four petals. Stamens six, tetradynamous. Ovary and style 

 one. Pods numerous, spreading, linear, terminating in pointed style, 

 four-angled. Inflorescence a long and dense raceme. Leaves alternate, 

 varying in form, lower ones lyrate, upper pinnate or pinnatifid, lobed. 

 Stem stout, erect, branching, furrowed, smooth. Hedges, pastures. 

 May to September. Perennial. 



GOOSE-GRASS, GALWM APARINE. Nat. Ord., Rubiacece. Calyx 

 adherent with ovary. Corolla monopetalous, rotate, white, regular, 

 four-cleft. Stamens four, inserted on coi-olla. Style one, two-cleft at 

 summit. Ovary one. Fruit a dry two-lobed pericarp, having hooked 

 bristles. Flowers three to ten together on short footstalks springing 

 from axils of leaves. Leaves in whorls, six to nine in a ring, prickly, 

 linear-lanceolate. Stems rough, angular, weak, straggling, freely 

 branching, supporting themselves by numerous recurved prickles. In 

 hedgerows. June, July. Annual. 



CHERRY, PKUKUS CERASUS. Nat. Ord., Eosacece.- Calyx inferior, 

 deciduous, five-cleft. Corolla of five petals, white, perigynous, equal. 

 Stamens numerous, inserted on calyx. Ovary one. Fruit a fleshy 

 drupe. Flowers in umbels, on long pedicels, issuing from rings of 

 scales. Leaves alternate, serrate, ovate, stipulate. A shrub or small 

 tree. Woods and hedgerows. May. 



WATER AVENS, r,F.ux mvALF.. Nat Ord., Rosacea. -Calyx 



tube short, five large segments, and five much smaller ones alternating 



with them, purplish. Corolla dull yellowish red. of five heart-shaped 



perigynous and equal petals. Stamens perigynous, numerous. Flowers 



few in number and drooping, growing singly on long peduncles. Fruit 



an achene, surmounted by a long and feathery awn. Leaves chiefly 



0, interruptedly pinnate, the terminal segment much larger than 



ters, serrate, upper leaves much more simple i n character 



