JUNE. Ill 



daisies. This is a common plant on all tlie chain 

 of the Alps, and seems by universal consent, 

 to be used on the Continent as a flower of which 

 to make garlands, on all rural festive occasions, 

 and with which to dress houses on holidays. 

 Miller says of the globe flower, "In West- 

 moreland, these flowers are collected with great 

 festivity, by the youth of both sexes, at the 

 beginning of June ; about which time, it is 

 usual to see them returning from the woods in 

 an evening, to adorn their doors and cottages 

 with wreaths and garlands." 



The hound's tongue {Cynoglossum officinale) 

 would attract our notice in the country lane, 

 rather by its great number of leaves, than by 

 its flowers. The dark crimson-browii tint of 

 their blossoms is so rare among our wilding 

 plants, that this alone may serve to distinguish 

 it from others. This flower is altogether of a 

 most sober aspect, and has nothing gay or 

 bjright about it. It rarely grows on pasture 

 lands ; but when it springs up therf, the cattle 

 most carefully avoid it. This is probably owing 

 to its peculiar odour, which has been compared 

 to that of mice. 



The yellow rattle {RhinantJms crista galli) 

 intrudes itself in many pastures, but is rather 

 local. In some parts of Kent, it is almost im- 

 known ; Ijut around Tunbridge Wells, the fields 

 are full of it. In the sunmier of 1839, it was 

 unusually abundant in Essex, and found oa 

 many lands on which it had never before ap- 

 peared. It not only grows in the meadows. 



