106 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



likely to forget its floral structure than if you 

 had merely moved its organs aside to see if 

 they fitted the descriptions in the Flora (and 

 where you could not see for certain, had- hoped 

 for the best) and passed on to the same half- 

 hearted examination of another plant. 



DISCOVERING THE NAMES OF PLANTS. 



All good Floras give instructions for the 

 scientific identification of plants, so that the in- 

 formation need not be repeated here. A few 

 hints, however, may not come amiss to the un- 

 scientific. 



On looking through an illustrated Flora and 

 realizing the number of plants described, ama- 

 teurs are sometimes confused and disheartened. 

 Cheer up! An hour's study will soon teach 

 you your way about such books. 



Let us suppose that you are a beginner. 

 You have found a Yellow Adder's Tongue and 

 do not know what it is. You observe that it 

 has two narrowly oval, pointed leaves, appar- 

 ently growing directly from the root and pe- 

 culiarly mottled with brownish purple spots. 

 Between the leaves rises the short, slender. 



