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to a heiglit of four or five feet. Its stem is hairy and cliannelled ; 

 and the leaves have a few broad, lobed, serrate leaflets with a 

 rough, hairy surface. The flowers, which bloom during July and 

 August, are of a reddish white colour, and have unequal petals. 



The Upright Hedge Parsley (Torilis Anthriscus or Caucalis 

 Anthriscus) is a slender plant, with an erect, soUd, rough stem, 

 from two to three feet high. Its leaves are hairy, bipinnate, with 

 lobed and toothed, ovate 

 or oblong leaflets. The 

 white or pale jsink flowers 

 are arranged in long- 

 stalked, terminal umbels 

 of from about six to 

 twelve rays, with several 

 primary and secondary 

 bracts. The fruits are 

 armed with bristles 

 which, though not 

 hooked, are slightly bent 

 inwards. This is a very 

 common hedgerow plant, 

 flowering from July to 

 September. 



Our last example of 

 the Umbelliferce is the 

 Rough Chervil {Chcero- 

 'phyllum temuhim), which 

 is very common in hedge- 

 rows, among the under- 

 growth of woods, and in 

 other shady places. It 



has a slender stem, from one to three feet high, swollen at the joints, 

 spotted with purple, and rendered rough by short hairs. The 

 leaves, which are also rough and spotted, are bii^innate, with 

 ovate leaflets that are cut into segments terminating abruptly in a 

 sharp point ; and tliey assume a rich purple tint that makes the 

 plant a conspicuous object in the autumn. The flowers are white, 

 in terminal compound umbels which droop in the bud. The bracts 

 are few in number or altogether absent, but there are several 

 secondary bracts which are fringed and bent downwards. 



Passing now to the order Caprifoliacece, we have to deal with 



The Honeysuckle. 



