80 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



" When sliineth summer light — 

 In every garden glade, 

 Flush forth the blossoms bright : 

 And sweetest is the shade 

 Where clustering roses twined a bower of rest hare made. 



" And oft some lorely Rose 

 Doth linger last of all, 

 When wind of autumn blows, 

 Wlien frosts of autumn fall ; 

 Like memory sad and sweet, past summer to recall." 



The Rose belongs to the perigynous division of Calycifloral 

 Exogens, the peculiarities of which have been already explained. 



Reverting to something like systematic order while giving 

 a brief explanation of our Illustrations of Summer Flowers, 

 we commence again with the Thalamifioral Exogens, a group of 

 plants which, it will be remembered, have the petals all dis- 

 tinct, and the stamens hypogynous or inserted beneath the 

 yoimg seed-vessels, and distinct from the surrounding parts of 

 the flower. 



During the summer months, an abundance of common 

 Ranunculaceous plants will be found in blossom in meadows 

 and waste places ; but as the peculiarities of this family have 

 been already pointed out, we must pass on to another allied 

 group of Thalamiflores, the Berberidaceous plants, which are 

 represented by the common Barberry.^ This is a deciduous 

 shrub, having the branches armed with long three-lobed 

 thorns at the base of the tufts of leaves, which are alternate 

 or clustered, oblong-ovate, and sharply toothed. The flowers 

 grow from the leaf- axils in short drooping racemes, and are 

 yellow^ with a disagreeable smell. They consist of a small 

 calyx of six sepals ; a corolla of six concave petals, each having 



* BerheHs vulgaris —Plate 7 A. 



