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leaflets deeply notched, giving the plant a very graceful ap- 

 pearance : flowers in early summer. 



10. Sweet Cicely, Myrrhis Odorata, Hemlock family. The 

 Myrrh of country children is fairly common on pastures and 

 damp waste ground : it is a tall (3 ft.) handsome plant with 

 large doubly or triply feather-compound leaves : the whole 

 plant is soft with fine hairs : the umbels are large and cream- 

 coloured : the fruits, as well as the leaves and stem, are 



12. Wild Chervil. 



13. Angelica. 



aromatic and are eaten by children because of their pleasant 

 flavour : flowers in early summer. 



11. Shepherd's Needle, Scandix Pecten-Veneris, Hemlock 

 family. The English name of this plant of the fields refers to 

 the long (2 ins.) slender needle-like fruits, which are very 

 striking after the flower has fallen : the stem is about 1 ft. 

 high with long triply feather-compound, light green leaves, 

 the segments of which are very narrow : the small umbels occur 

 one or two together : flowers summer. 



12. Wild Chervil, Anthriscus sylvestris, Hemlock family. 

 One of our commonest hedgerow plants : it is coarse, with a 

 rough, furrowed stem about 3 ft. high, and large, doubly 

 feather-compound leaves, the leaflets of which are mucn 

 notched : the umbels are large, and show well the special 

 advantage of this type of inflorescence the individual flowers 

 are small and inconspicuous, but in the mass they form a very 

 showy object: the effect is still further enhanced by the fact 

 that the external petals of the external flowers are much 



