108 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



pointed, much waved or curled along the edge ; flowers 

 with both stamens and pistils ; waste places ; 1J-3 ft. 

 (v.c.) 1039 



Sharp Dock. Diam. J in. ; sepals 6, in 2 rows, the 

 inner 3 larger ; petals ; stamens 6 ; styles 3 ; fruit tri- 

 angular ; leaves oblong-lanceolate ; inner sepals linear- 

 oblong, with tubercles ; flowers with both stamens and 

 pistils ; wet places ; 1-3 ft. (o.) 1041 



Fiddle-dock. Diam. J in. ; sepals 6, in 2 rows, the 

 inner 3 larger ; petals ; stamens 6 ; styles 3 ; fruit tri- 

 angular ; lower leaves fiddle-shaped, upper lanceolate, 

 pointed ; inner sepals oblong, deeply toothed ; waysides ; 

 6-18 in. (L.) 1036 



Meadow-dock. Diam. J in. ; sepals 6, in 2 rows, the 

 inner 3 larger ; petals ; stamens 6 ; styles 3 ; fruit tri- 

 angular ; root leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, waved ; 

 inner sepals unequal, cordate or triangular, toothed near 

 the apex ; marshes ; 2-3 ft. (R.) 1035 



Small. Brownish. 



Bird's-nest. Diam. nearly J in., with lip; plant pale 

 reddish-brown, without green leaves, but with numerous 

 sheathing brown scales ; flowers in a rather dense spike ; 

 sepals 3 ; petals 3, 1 being lipped with 2 spreading lobes ; 

 root-fibres many, fleshy, short ; shady woods ; 4-10 in. 

 (L.) 1101 



Red-brown Broad-leaved Helleborine. Diam. nearly 

 | in. ; flowers drooping in racemes ; sepals 3, broadly 

 ovate ; petals 2, ovate-lanceolate, and the third with a 

 hollow or concave shiny lip ; lower leaves close, roundish 

 ovate, strongly parallel- ribbed, 1| in. by 1 in. ; cliffs, 

 etc.; 6-15 in. (R.) 1105 



Very Small. 



Sweet-gale or Bog-myrtle. Diam. J in. ; perianth ; 

 flowers in axillary catkins 1J in. ; stamen flowers with 4-8 

 stamens ; pistillate flowers with a sessile 1 -celled ovary and 

 2 styles ; leaves obovate-lanceolate, 2-3 in. ; a fragrant, 

 twiggy shrub; moors and bogs; 2-3 ft. (L.) 1093 



