WATEK AVENS. 



Ovum rirale. Xat. Orrf., Rosaeetc. 



N a previous volume we 

 have figured one species of 

 avens, the common avens, 

 or Herb Bennet, the Geum 

 urbanum of botanical nomen- 

 clature ; a plant abundantly to 

 be met with almost every- 

 where in the hedgerows and 

 on banks. A reference to our 

 illustration will show that 

 though in foliage the common 

 avens is very similar to the 

 water aveus, its flowers are 

 entirely different, those of the 

 one forming a small but 

 widely-spreading golden star 

 of five petals, while the flowers 

 of the other, as our illustration 

 shows, are much larger, of bell- 

 like form and of reddish tint. We have thus dwelt upon the 

 marked differences in the flowers of the two varieties differ- 

 ences that can be still more readily perceived by an inspection 

 and comparison of our illustrations, because it is a curious 

 fact that when the two species are found in the same neigh- 



