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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



toothed, smooth, usually about two inches long. The flowers are 

 not nearly so numerous as those of the last species, are only a little over 

 a third of an inch in diameter, and in a short, leafy panicle, drooping 

 while in the bud. The calyx is deeply divided into four sepals 

 about a sixth of an inch long ; the corolla consists of four notched 

 petals, a little longer than the sepals ; the stamens, ovary, fruit, 

 and seeds correspond in number and character with those of the 

 last species ; but the stigma is either entire or divided into foiu; 



very short lobes. 



In the same order we have 

 the Enchanter's Nightshade 

 {Circcea lutetiana), dis- 

 tinguished at once from the 

 Willow Herbs by having only 

 two sepals, two petals, and 

 two stamens. It is an erect, 

 hairy plant, from one to two 

 feet high, flowering from 

 June to August. Its stem is 

 slender ; and the leaves are 

 opposite, long-stalked, ovate 

 and coarsely toothed. The 

 flowers are very small, white, 

 in terminal, leafless racemes, 

 with deeply-notched petals, 

 and pink stamens. The fruit 

 is a little two-lobed capsule 

 with stiff, hooked hairs. 



The Cornel or Dogwood 

 (Cormis sanguinea), of the 

 order Coniacece, is a common shrub in woods and thickets, and is often 

 employed in the making of hedgero\^s. It grows from five to eight 

 feet high, and flowers during June and July. Its leaves are covered, 

 when young, with fine, silky hairs that lie close on the surface, but 

 these almost entu-ely disappear later ; and towards the end of the 

 summer the leaves assume a deej) crimson or purple colour. The 

 flowers are very abundant, of a yellowish white colour, and are 

 ari-anged in dense cymes, about two inches across, without bracts. 

 The four-toothed calyx and the peduncle are both clothed with 

 a mealy down ; and the four petals, about a quarter of an inch 

 long, are narrow and pointed. The fruit is a purple-black, 



THE Wood Saxicle. 



