128 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



Very Large. White with Purplish. 



White Opium Poppy. Diam. 2J in. or more ; sepals 2 ; 

 petals 4 ; stamens many ; plant generally glaucous ; 

 leaves clasping the stem, waved or toothed ; cornfields ; 

 1-2 ft. (L.) 47 



Medium. 



Arrow-head. Diam. nearly f in. ; leaves in water, 

 arrow-shaped, 3-6 in. ; flowers in 3-5 distant whorls, 

 each with 3-5 flowers ; perianth 6 ; stamens many ; 

 carpels many ; pools ; 6-18 in. (o.) 1196 



Very Small. 



Alpine Milk- vetch. Diam. ^ in. ; length f in. ; flowers 

 drooping in spikes ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, unequal ; stamens 

 10 ; fruit clothed with black hairs ; leaves 2-4 in., with 

 many narrow leaflets, i in. ; stem trailing, hairy ; moun- 

 tains ; 2-4 in. (L.) 334 



Gipsy-wort. Diam. J in. ; flowers sessile, in dense 

 whorls ; leaves ovate-oblong, deeply cut or serrate ; stem 

 4-angled ; sepals 5 ; corolla 4-cleft ; stamens 2 ; ditches ; 

 stem erect, 1-3 ft. (c.) 881 



Large. Green and White with Purplish. 



Lizard Orchis. Diam. 1 J in. ; flowers with a long, lipped 

 petal, 1 in., white and green, purple-spotted ; 2 other 

 petals and 3 sepals, forming a green hood ; spike of flowers 

 long ; leaves chiefly radical, oblong ; chalk hills ; 1-2 

 ft. (E.) 1123 



Medium. 



Marsh Helleborine. Diam. nearly f in. ; flowers few 

 in a spike, greenish with a lip petal white, marked red 

 and purple ; leaves lanceolate, pointed ; stem slender, 

 wiry, hairy above ; 6-18 in. (c.) 1106 



Very Small. 



Reddish Green. 



Grainless Water-dock. Diam. } in. or over ; flowers in 

 whorls ; sepals 6, the 3 inner larger ; petals ; stamens 6 ; 



