WHITE FLOWERS 



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opposite, feather-compound with ovate, coarsely serrate leaflets : 

 the leaf stalk acts as a tendril, twisting round any convenient 

 support, and so aiding the plant to climb : the flowers which 

 appear in June, in small bunches, in the leaf axils are devoid 

 of petals, and possess only 4 oval greyish sepals : in autumn 

 the flowers are succeeded bv clusters of little seed-like fruits, 



16. Traveller's Joy. 



17. Wood Anemone. 



each with a long feathery style, and to these the plant owes 

 its chief claim to beauty. 



17. Wood Anemone, Anemone nemorosa, Crowfoot family. 

 A familiar plant in shady woods, flowering in spring : the stem 

 is subterranean, and gives rise each year to 2 to 3 leaves, and a 

 slender flower-stalk, which bears 3 leaves and a single flower : 

 the leaves are deeply palm-divided into 



3 to 5 notched segments : the flower is 

 devoid of corolla, but the sepals are petal- 

 like, generally white, but sometimes 

 purple in colour. 



18. Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus 

 aquatilis, Crowfoot family. A large 

 number of forms of Water Crowfoot, all 

 resembling each other fairly closely, are 

 to be found in our streams and ponds : 

 all have submerged leaves, which are cut 



into a number of very fine hair-like segments ; some have in 

 addition less divided aerial leaves : the small flowers are pro- 

 duced above the surface of the water ; the petals are white, 

 except for a yellow spot on the inner side : flowers in summer. 

 The Ivy -leaved Crowfoot is a form common in ditches, with leaves 

 like those of the ivy. 



19. White Climbing Fumitory, Corydalis claviculata, Fumi- 

 tory family. A slender rambler, often attaining a length of 

 3 to 4 ft., and growing through and over bushes (especially 



18. Water Crowfoot. 



