74 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



pels gradually ripen and enlarge until at last 

 these too are dispersed, and each little seed 

 goes off to start life on its own account. You 

 should secure a cluster of ripening carpels and 

 make a separate sketch of these and also of a 

 single carpel as it looks when magnified. This 

 sketch may come at the side of the former 

 drawing. Gather and sketch the fruit of the 

 two other species so that you may compare 

 them with each other and know your plants 

 well in every stage of their existence. 



The prettily named Robin's Plantain goes so 

 naturally with Buttercups that it shall be the 

 subject of study for 



LESSON IV 



Uproot two or three plants in good flower; 

 shake the earth free from the roots and bring 

 all home for examination. 



EXERCISE I. 



Here we have fibrous roots again (see Plate 

 III, Fig. 1). Runners are also given off, 

 which root and form fresh plants, and these 

 produce, in the fall, small rosettes of leaves 



