214 COUNTRY RAMBLES. 



12th. -Very hot; 114 degrees in the sun at 9 a.m. Dark at 8.15 p.m. 

 How the nights lengthen! 



Flowers found in bloom to day: Yarrow Scentless Mayweed, 

 Long-rooted Cat's Ear, Dove's Foot Crane's Bill, Bird's Foot Trefoil, 

 Nipplewort (fields and hedgerows one mass of golden from this pretty 

 little flower), Charlock, Creeping Crowfoot, Field Thistle, Small 

 Knapweed (in its flowering prime now), Hedge Mustard, Scarlet 

 Poppy, Corn Sow Thistle (must not be confounded with the Sow 

 Thistle, flowers larger and more ragged), Cinquefoil, Field Convolvu- 

 lus (still throwing freely the delicate white and pink blossoms), Field 

 Scorpion Grass (often wrongly identified as Forget-me-not), Sow 

 Thistle, Hedge Parsley, Red Clover, Groundsel, Cow Parsnip, Shep- 

 herd's Purse, Knot Grass (one's appreciation of this varies consider- 

 ably, viewed (1) as a wild flower and (2) as a weed in the garden!) 

 Field Scabious, Sainfoin (apparently a late crop noticed during to-day's 

 ramble), Wild Carrot, Red Dead Nettle, Burdock, Dandelion, White 

 Clover, Daisy, Avens, Bramble, Herb Robert, Self Heal (mostly gone 

 off flower), Perforated St. John's Wort (going off rapidly), Chickweed, 

 Small Willow Herb, Hedge Calamint, Lesser Stitchwort (is not this 

 very late ?), Upright Meadow Crowfoot, Harebell, Spear Plume 

 Thistle, Meadow Vetchling, Scarlet Pimpernel, Germander Speedwell 

 (came across several clumps of the last two flowers growing together; 

 how delicate the light blue of the Speedwell as compared with the 

 scarlet of the Pimpernel I) Hop Trefoil, Larger Willow Herb (this is 

 really a very beautiful flower; how curious the fluffy seed-heads of 

 these Willow Herbs); Woody Nightshade (the green and golden 

 berries to be seen as well as the dark Violet flowers), Agrimony 

 (mostly finished), Ragwort, Corn Mint, Enchanter's Nightshade, Fox- 

 glove (just a few out in flower still), Hedge Stachys (in spite of former 

 note that this flower has gone off bloom, a few were found to-day, so 

 that its inclusion as we seek to find out the truth is inevitable), 

 Betony, Wood Crowfoot, Silver Weed, Oxeye Daisy, Heartsease, 

 Common Mallow, Honeysuckle, Goosegrass, Tansy (first time included 

 in our lists), White Campion, Toadflax, Rest Harrow, Traveller's Joy, 

 Bindweed, Fleabane (just come into flower), Broad Leaved Helle- 

 borine (going off rapidly), and Purple Medick (a whole field of this 

 very pretty flower observed to-day). 



From this list it will be seen that we still manage to find about 

 seventy species in flower, yet in our last week's notes we remarked 

 that our list was not nearly so lengthy as formerly! 



