180 FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 



mantle,* -are members) comes between this and 

 the true roses. There is a foreign plantt of this 



FRUIT OF THE HAWTHORN. (Crategus oxycanth.) 



BURNET tribe, the leaves of which are said to be 

 an excellent substitute for tea. In Tasmania it is 

 a troublesome weed, well known for the annoyance 

 caused by its fruit hooking into the dress of pedes- 

 trians. To keep this little tribe in your memory I 

 must show you a dried specimen of the field lady's 

 mantle, a humble plant, but very common, with 

 small greenish flowers almost concealed in the 



Alchemilla vulgaris. 



t Acsena sanquisorba. 



