28 WILD FLOWERS 



leaves : the small white flowers are gathered in loose spikes : 

 the most notable feature is the fruit, which gives the plant its 

 name ; it is a large disc-shaped pouch, with the centre swollen, 

 and with an apical notch: a common field weed, flowering in 

 summer. 



38. Grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris, Saxifrage 

 family. A very beautiful and not uncommon bog plant, flower- 

 ing in autumn : it has a rosette of stalked heart-shaped leaves, 

 from which rise the flowering stems : the leaves on the stems 

 are sessile : the flowers are large and creamy white : the plant 

 is about | ft. high, and is quite smooth. 



39. Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, Sundew family. A little 



37. Penny-Cress. 



38. Grass of Parnassus. 



bog plant, readily recognised by its rosette of round, stalked 

 leaves, which are covered with small, red tentacles, and have a 

 glistening appearance, as if spangled with dew : any insect 

 which lights on the leaf is held by a sticky fluid, and the ten- 

 tacles close over it, pouring on to it a digestive liquid, which 

 enables the plant to absorb the nutritious part of its prey : the 

 Sundew is thus insectivorous: the small, whitish flowers are 

 born in little clusters on stalks, rising from the rosette in late 

 summer. 



40. Chickweed Wintergreen, Trientalis europcea, Primrose 

 family. The stem is about 4 ins. high, and bears a single whorl 

 of pointed leaves, oval in shape, but broadest towards the tip : 

 from this spring several delicate flower-stalks, each with a fairly 

 large, white, star-like flower : the plant is a very beautiful, but 

 by no means common inhabitant of northern woods, flowering 

 in early summer. 



