136 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



3-cleft usually, serrate, opposite ; heads nearly erect ; wet 

 places ; 1-2 ft. (c.) 677 



Small. 



Stinking Groundsel. Heads diam. f in. ; length f in. ; 

 ray florets about 12, rolled back ; disc florets each 5-cleft ; 

 leaves lobed and cut, clammy or sticky and hairy ; bracts 

 hairy, loose ; plant smelling offensively : waste places ; 

 1-2 ft. (L.) 707 



Yellow Toadflax. Diam. f in. or more ; length J in: 

 with spur ; flowers in a dense raceme ; sepals 5 ; corolla 

 closed, spurred, pale and deep yellow ; stamens 4 ; plant 

 whitish or glaucous ; leaves narrow, 2 in. ; hedges, etc. ; 

 1-4 ft. (v.c.) 861 



Ploughman's Spikenard. Heads diam. f in: ; length 

 \ in. ; ray none, disc florets each 5-cleft ; bracts brownish, 

 unequal ; plant hairy ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3J in., 

 alternate ; pastures and copses ; 2-5 ft. (c.) 719 



Very Small. 



Trailing Toadflax. Diam. nearly J in. ; length f in. ; 

 flowers closed and spurred, throat and spur marked with 

 slender purple lines ; sepals 5 ; stamens 4 ; stem branched 

 at base ; leaves linear, blunt, whorled mostly ; waste 

 places ; 3-12 in. (L.) 862 



Sharp-leaved Fluellen. Diam. J in. ; length | in. ; 

 flowers closed and spurred, upper lip lined purple ; spur 

 as long as the corolla ; branches slender, prostrate ; sepals 



5 ; stamens 4 ; lower leaves ovate ; upper f in., 2-pointed 

 at base ; cornfields ; 6-18 in. (c.) 859 



Golden Dock. Diam. J in. ; flowers in dense, short, 

 spreading, branched panicles ; sepals 6 ; petals ; stamens 



6 ; styles 3 ; sepals in fruit, orange yellow ; inner sepals 

 with 2-4 long bristly teeth and a swollen oblong tubercle ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3-10 in. ; marshes ; 1-2 ft. 

 (L.) 1037 



Yellow Marsh Dock. Diam. J in. ; as above, but whorls 

 distant, with fewer flowers, inner sepals oblong-triangular, 

 teeth shorter and fewer ; fruit larger ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate ; marshy soil ; 1-2 ft. (L.) 1038 



