228 FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



Gentianacece, is a very common plant in dry pastures. Its stem 

 is erect, simple below, freely branched towards the top, from six to 

 eighteen inclies high ; and the leaves are ovate, spreading and closely 

 placed below, narrow and more distant above. The flowers are 



THE OX-EYE DAISY. 



rose-red or pink, in a dense corymb, with a calyx of five very 

 narrow segments, and a corolla consisting of a narrow tube and 

 five spreading lobes. 



Of the order Convolvulacce we shall note one species — the 

 Small Bindweed {Convolvulus arvensis), so well known as a trouble- 

 some weed in cultivated liclds. It has a creeping rootstock, and 

 a twining stem, from a few inches to two feet in length, that 



