92 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



Field Melilot. Diam. y in. ; length T 8 in. ; flowers in 

 racemes, rather pale yellow ; sepals 5 ; stamens 10 ; petals 

 5, keel shortest ; leaflets 3, obovate-oblong ; fruit egg- 

 shaped, with a sharp spine ; fields ; 6-24 in. (c.) 302 



Slender Yellow Trefoil. Diam. flowers -^ in. ; length 

 T 3 g- in. ; flowers rather pale ; heads loose, 2-6-flowered ; 

 leaflets 3, nearly J in., toothed at the tip, obcordate, 

 nearly sessile ; sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; pastures ; stem very 

 slender; 4-6 in. (o.) 326 



Large. Orange Yellow. 



Orange Alpine Cinquefoil. Diam. 1 in. ; stem nearly up- 

 right ; root leaves of 5 wedge-shaped leaflets, f in., with 

 deep cuts ; sepals 10 ; petals 5 ; stamens many ; moun- 

 tains ; 4-10 in. (R.) 382 



Medium. 



Orange Hawkweed. Diam. heads | in. ; florets all ray ; 

 heads about 6 in a dense cluster ; plant with blackish 

 hairs ; leaves obovate ; copses ; 1-2 ft. (L.) 632 



Tawny-coloured Balsam. Diam. nearly J in. ; flowers 

 irregular, with a tube and an upcurved spur ; leaves oblong, 

 crenate-serrate, acute ; sepals 3, petaloid ; petals 3 ; 

 stamens 5 ; river-banks ; 2-3 ft. (L.) 274 



Yellow Mountain Saxifrage. Diam. in. ; flowers 

 yellow, with orange spots ; sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 

 10 ; leaves spreading, 1 in., linear -lanceolate ; mountain 

 rills; 5-7 in. (L.) 479 



Large. Pinkish WMte - 



Small Bindweed. Diam. 1J in. (See Rosy Pink, 

 Large.) 



Small. 



Dwarf Elder or Danewort. Diam. J in. ; clusters 3 in., 

 with 3 branches ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, joined ; stamens 5 ; 

 leaves pinnate, leaflets 4 in. ; stem stout, ribbed ; copses ; 

 2-3 ft. (c.) 564 



Lesser Water-plantain. Diam. f in. ; sepals 3 ; petals 

 3 ; stamens 6 ; leaves all radical, narrow, erect, blade 



