26 WILD FLOWERS 



where it flowers in summer : it may range from 1 to 8 'ins. in 

 height, the stem being simple or slightly branched, and bearing 

 pairs of ovate, serrate, sessile leaves : the flowers form a short, 

 terminal spike : in colour they may be white, white veined 

 with purple, or completely purple. 



32. Wood-sage, Teucrium Scorodonia, Dead-nettle family. 

 The stem is square and about 1 ft. high, with pairs of wrinkled, 



81. Eye-bright. 



32. Wood-sage. 



ovate or heart-shaped leaves, the margins of which are bluntly 

 serrate : the flowers are rather small, tubular, dirty-white in 

 colour, and occur in two or three terminal spikes : the plant, 

 which has an aromatic smell if crushed, flowers in late summer, 

 and is common in dry woods and on 

 banks. 



33. Spring Whitlow-grass, Erophila 

 verna, Cress family. This pretty little 

 plant occurs in patches on walls and bare, 

 dry banks, and in spring speckles them 

 with the white of its starry flowers : the 

 flower-stalks rise from a rosette of lance- 



shaped, toothed leaves, and are either simple 

 33. Spring Whitlow-gras3. wit f; ^ or ^ fl( p 



several little spikes : each petal is deeply divided into two 

 lobes : the plant is usually less than 2 ins. high, but may 

 sometimes reach a height of about 4 ins. 



34. Scurvy-grass, Cochlearia officinalis, Cress family. A 

 plant of the sea-coast, flowering on grassy slopes, and in crevices 



