114 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



pointed ; stamens 5, forming a black cone ; leaves ovate, 

 sessile, waved ; waste places ; 1-2 ft. (L.) 944 



Perennial Flax. Diam. about 1 in. ; flowers sky-blue ; 

 sepals 5, obovate, obscurely 5-ribbed ; stamens 5 ; leaves 

 sessile, very narrow, tapering f in. ; stem slender, wiry ; 

 chalky hills ; 1-2 ft. (L.) 224 



Annual Sheep 's-bit. Diam. heads f in. ; length f in. 

 or over ; florets (flowers) long, 5-cleft to the base ; calyx 

 5-lobed ; stamens 5, united ; stigma 2-cleft ; flowers in 

 hemispheric heads ; bracts ovate, acute, green ; leaves 

 obovate-oblong, roughish hairy ; plant when bruised smell- 

 ing disagreeably ; heaths ; 4-10 in. (c.) 752 



Small. 



Common Viper's Bugloss. Diam. J in. ; flower buds 

 pinkish, flowers brilliant blue ; plant rough, with prickly 

 bristles ; leaves narrow, tapering ; flowers in short lateral 

 spikes ; sepals 5 ; corolla rather bell-shaped, 5-lobed ; 

 stamens 5, longer than corolla ; chalky fields ; 1J-3 ft. 

 (c.) 953 



Purple-blue Gromwell. Diam. in. ; flower stems erect, 

 non-flowering, creeping ; sepals 5 ; corolla with 5 spreading 

 lobes ; stamens 5 ; leaves 2 in., nearly sessile, narrow- 

 lanceolate ; sepals slender, much shorter than the corolla ; 

 thickets ; 1-2 ft. (R.) 940 



Narrow-leaved Flax. Diam. f in. ; flowers light blue ; 

 sepals 5, elliptical, sharp-pointed, 3-ribbed ; petals 5 ; 

 stamens 5 ; leaves very narrow, tapering to a point, alter- 

 nate ; stem slender, not much branched ; chalky hills ; 

 1-2 ft. (L.) 225 



Water Forget-me-not or Scorpion-grass. Diam. f in. ; 

 length J in. ; flowers bright pale blue in leafless 1 -sided 

 clusters, eye yellow, rays white ; calyx 5-lobed, with 

 close-pressed hairs ; corolla 5-lobed ; stamens 5 ; stem 

 with spreading hairs ; leaves mostly sessile, bright green, 

 roughish ; wet places ; 9-18 in. (v.c.) 930 



Rock Scorpion-grass. Diam. f in. ; flowers bright pale 

 blue in leafless 1 -sided clusters ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, with 

 spreading hairs ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mostly sessile ; 



