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mon Skull-cap (Scutellaria galericiilatd], growing side by 

 side with the Woundworts, just as they do with us. 



The next flower, though not familiar to English eyes, we 

 find to be a kind of Gentian, called Swertia perennis, with 

 little blue blossoms. Then there are Great Burnet (Sangui- 

 sorba officinalis), with purple spikes; and common Tansy 

 (Tanacetum vulgare) : such a merry-looking flower it is, with 

 its bunches of blossoms like yellow buttons, and its leaves 

 so beautifully cut. Next we find a flower which grows in 

 England and Scotland, Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis 

 Europaa) ; it is a rare arid beautiful flower of the Primrose 

 family ; the flowers are yellowish- white, and the stamens of 

 course opposite the lobes of the corolla. 



We cannot get away from our English friends ; and who 

 would wish it? That handsome flower, the Great Wild 

 Yalerian ( Valeriana officinalis), greets us next ; here too 

 are two of the Whortleberries again (Yaccinium Vitis-idaa 

 and V. uliginosum). And now we find two most elegant 

 and distinguished-looking flowers, which no one ever saw 

 in England, though by the family likeness we can tell they 

 are relations of the Wood Anemone; these are Anemone 

 narcissiflora and A. sylvestris ; but though some of the 

 characters are the same as in our own species, the flowers 



