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186. Golden Saxifrage, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, Saxi- 

 frage family. A spring flowering plant of stream-sides and wet 

 places, particularly in woods : the stem may be 6 ins. high, with 

 pairs of shortly stalked, roundish leaves with scalloped edges : 

 the flowers are small in numerous little groups at the apex of 

 the stem, and are green with a golden tinge. 



187. Moschatel, Adoxa Moschatellina, Moschatel family. A 

 delicate little plant of damp woods, flowering in spring: the 

 stem is horizontal, and lies just under the surface of the soil : it 

 sends up several stalked leaves, and a single flower-stalk with 2 

 leaves, and a little head of 5 flowers : the leaves are compound, 



185. Lady's Mantle. 



186. Golden Saxifrage. 



with 3 leaflets, each 3-lobed : the flowers are pale green : the 

 apical flower of the head has 4 petals, and the others have 

 each 5. 



188. Goose-foot, Fat Hen, Chenopodium album. Goose-foot 

 family. A common weed of waste ground and cultivated land, 

 flowering in autumn : the stem is tall and branched, with stalked 

 rhomboid-shaped leaves, the margins of which are coarsely 

 toothed : the flowers are small and greenish, in little spikes in 

 the axils of the upper leaves : the plant has a slightly mealy 

 appearance. 



189. Black Bindweed, Polygonum Convolvulus, Dock family. 

 A common and troublesome weed of gardens : the root descends 

 to great depths, and is very difficult to eradicate : in corn-fields 

 it twines round the stems of the corn: the leaves are arrow- 

 shaped, and in their axils occur in summer and autumn little 

 groups of green flowers, tinged with pink. 



190. Curled Dock, Rumex crispus, Dock family. The stem is 



