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WILD FLOWERS 



branches; the fruits are long slender pods containing many 

 seeds: a common weed of waste places and cultivated fields, 

 flowering throughout summer. 



69. Charlock, Brassica arvensis, Cress family. This "wild 

 mustard" is an exceedingly common weed in corn-fields: it 



69. Charlock. 



70. Mignonette. 



flowers in summer, when the corn is still green, and sometimes 

 turns whole fields into a mass of gold : the stem is about Ij ft. 

 high : the upper leaves are ovate, notched, and sessile ; the lower 

 have stalks and are feather-lobed : the 

 flowers occur in terminal spikes : the 

 pods are knotty. 



70. Mignonette, Reseda lutea, Mignon- 

 ette family. The wild Mignonette is not 

 unlike the garden sort, but it is odour- 

 less : the stem is taller, and the flowers 

 are yellow with a greenish tinge : they 

 are borne in spikes at the end of the leafy 

 stem : the leaves are much cut, and are 

 smooth : the seed-vessel is peculiar as it 

 is always open : the Weld is a close 

 relative ; it is a taller, coarser plant with 

 green flowers ; both plants are common 

 on waste ground, flowering in summer. 

 t 71. Black Medick, Medicago lupulina, Pea family. Many 

 tiny yellow flowers are gathered in little oval heads, borne on 

 short stalks along the stem : the leaves have 3 leaflets, which 



71. Black Medick. 



