JUNE FLOWERS. 103 



ascending, leaves 3-7-lobed, 2-3 in. ; waste places ; 1-3 ft. 

 (c.) 229 



Vervain Mallow. Diam. 1J in. ; flowers pale rosy 

 purple ; sepals 5, with 3 bracts ; petals 5 ; stamens many, 

 forming a tube ; lower leaves roundish, angular, upper 

 5 -parted and cut ; stems and sepals velvety ; waste 

 places ; 3 ft. (R.A.) 233 



Meadow Thistle. Diam. heads 1J in. ; heads mostly 

 solitary ; stem cottony, not winged ; leaves few, soft, wavy, 

 lanceolate, toothed ; bracts cottony, close-pressed ; plant 

 with only 1 or 2 heads ; florets all disc tubular ; wet 

 pastures; 12-18 in. (L.) 661 



Black Knapweed. Diam. heads 1J in. ; length 1 in. ; 

 heads Thistle-like, but plant entirely without prickles ; 

 florets all tubular ; bracts close -pressed, broad, dark, with 

 fringes ; leaves entire, upper lanceolate, roughish, 1-3 in. ; 

 stem tough ; waysides ; 9-30 in. (v.c.) 667 



Wood Lavatera. Diam. 1 in. ; sepals 5$ with 3 

 bracts ; petals 5, glossy ; stamens many, forming a long 

 column ; flowers pale rose-purple ; petals twice as long 

 as sepals, narrow, notched ; waste places ; 1-3 ft. (R.A.) 



238 



Purple Helleborine. Diam. 1 in. ; flowers in a loose, 

 slender, narrow spike ; leaves lanceolate, parallel- veined ; 

 sepals 3 ; petals 2, all rosy-purple ; third petal lipped, 

 white; woods; 6-18 in. (R.) 1109 



Wild Pink. Diam. 1 in. ; flowers fragrant, fringed ; 

 calyx 5-toothed ; petals 5 ; stamens 10 ; styles 2 ; leaves 

 narrow, acute, 1-nerved ; old walls ; 1 ft. (R.) 163 



Medium. 



Foxglove. Diam. nearly f in. ; length 1J in. ; flowers 

 drooping, bell-shaped, in a long terminal raceme ; calyx 

 5-lobed ; corolla slightly 5-lobed ; stamens 4 ; leaves 

 mostly lanceolate, large ; hedges ; 2-4 ft. (v.c.) 854 



Larger Marsh Orchis. Diam. f in. or over ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, unspotted, parallel-veined ; bracts 

 longer than dull-purple flowers ; sepals 3 ; petals 2, 

 coloured, third petal lipped, dotted and streaked ; stem 



