138 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 



leaves being coarsely veined, and moved by heliotropic tendency to 

 turn towards the sun, on each aspect towards the greatest source of light. 

 The plant smells strongly of garlic, especially when the leaves are 

 bruised, quite as much as Ramsons. 



All the leaves are 

 borne on long foot- 

 stalks, and the broad, 

 deep teeth give their 

 leaves a notched ap- 

 pearance. 



The flowers are 

 white and small, the 

 petals are stalked and 

 inversely egg-shaped. 

 The pods are linear, 

 slightly curved up- 

 ward, longer than the 

 stalks, rounded, biloc- 

 ular, and 2-valved. 



The plant is 2-3 

 ft. high, and flowers 

 from May to June. 

 It is perennial, and 

 deciduous and herb- 

 aceous. 



It has 4 honey - 

 glands as in the 

 Cuckoo - flower, and 

 the honey forms into 

 four drops in the 

 middle of the flower, 

 forming in wards, 1 from 

 the base of the short 

 stamens. The drops 



lie between the long and short stamens, and at length fill the lower 

 part of the space between the stamens and pistil, adhering firmly to 

 it. There are none where the abortive or functionless stamens should 

 be. The sepals in bud protect the parts, and being white, attract 

 insects, and when the flowers open, they fall. The anthers open 



1 Causing, it may l>e, the sepals to drop early. This does not happen where the nectar is formed 

 between the stamens and sepals, or outwards. 



Photo. Rev. C. A. Ha 



SAUCE ALONE (Sisymbrium Alliaria, Scop.) 



