38 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



Red or Wild Cherry (tree). Diam. nearly f in. ; flowers 

 in almost sessile umbels ; calyx 5-cleft ; petals 5 ; stamens 

 many ; leaves ovate-oblong, dark blue-green, 3-5 in. ; 

 bark red ; woods ; 3-8 ft. (c.) 367 



Wood Strawberry. Diam. f in. ; flowers creamy white ; 

 calyx 10-cleft ; petals 5 ; stamens many ; short flower 

 stalk with close-pressed hairs ; fruit drooping, red ; leaves 

 of 3 ovate leaflets ; woods ; 2-6 in. (v.c.) 389 



Tufted Alpine Saxifrage. Diam. | in. ; flowers cup- 

 shaped ; sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 10 ; leaves densely 

 tufted, wedge-shaped, 3-5-lobed, J in. ; Scottish moun- 

 tains ; 2-4 in. (L.) 486 



Hawthorn or May (tree). Diam. J in. ; flowers in level 

 clusters, after leaves ; bush thorny ; sepals 5 ; petals 

 5 ; stamens many, pink ; leaves wedge-shaped at base, 

 deeply cut, 1-2 in. ; hedges ; 10-20 ft. (v.c.) 412 



White Beam (tree). Diam. J in. ; flowers clustered ; 

 petals 5 ; stamens many ; leaves 2-6 in., variable, lobed, 

 coarsely serrate, woolly beneath ; woods ; 4-40 ft. (L.) 417 



Broad-leaved Alpine Mouse-ear Chickweed. Diam. J 

 in. ; flowers often solitary ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, cloven ; 

 stamens 10 ; leaves ovate, 1 in. ; mountains ; 3-5 in. 

 (E.) 221 



Glaucous Stitchwort. Diam. J in. ; flowers few ; sepals 

 5 ; petals 5, deeply cloven ; stamens 10 ; stem nearly 

 erect, 4-angled ; leaves very narrow, sessile, 1-2 in. ; 

 marshes; 1-2 ft. (c.) 210 



Bird Cherry (tree). Diam. J in. ; flowers creamy-white 

 in hanging racemes 2-4 in. long ; sepals 5 small ; petals 

 5 roundish ; stamens many ; leaves oval, 3 in. ; woods ; 

 6-20 ft. (o.) 366 



Small. 



Lesser Stitchwort. Diam. nearly J in. ; stem smooth, 

 4-angled ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, deeply cleft, as long as the 

 3-nerved sepals ; stamens 10 ; styles 3 ; leaves linear ; 

 hedges; 1-2 ft. (c.) 211 



Wood Stitchwort. Diam. f in. ; leaves ovate or cor- 

 date. 1-2 in. ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, deeply cloven, longer 



