56 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



tails omitted by a Flora that will be of inter- 

 est to yourself, for such books mainly under- 

 take to give sufficient information to identify 

 plants. You may notice hairs in the throat 

 of a flower or on the stems or calyces, peculiari- 

 ties of growth and structure, and many curious 

 developments. Then, too, you should leave 

 plenty of space for notes that may be inserted 

 later about the same species. For example 

 suppose you make notes about a Jewelweed 

 you have found flowering in summertime. 

 Later in the year you will find specimens of 

 the plant in fruit, and you will like to have 

 some record of this, and perhaps a small 

 sketch. Then when the winter is over and the 

 bare earth has become green with innumerable 

 seedlings, you will find in wet ground by 

 springs and along brooks tiny plants bearing 

 two nearly round, thick leaves very unlike 

 those of the plant previously recorded. But 

 other leaves of later growth show that the tiny 

 things are seedling Jewelweeds. A seedling's 

 first leaves are often strangely unlike those 

 typical of the plant. Sometimes the second 

 pair becomes at once very like the true leaves, 



