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The flowers are small, bright-yellow, in heads, 

 2-5, the standard red outside, with red veins. 

 The flower-stalks are as long as the leaves. The 

 pod is slender, beaked, or curved upwards ; the 

 10-14 joints cylindrical, rough or granulate. The 

 plant is 4-18 in. high, and flowers from May to 

 August. It is a herbaceous annual. 



Narrow-leaved Crimson Vetch ( Vicia angusti- 

 foh'a, L.). The habitat of this Vetch is dry places, 

 banks, &c. The habit is climbing, as in V. sa- 

 tiva. The plant is stout, the stem slender. The 

 upper leaves have linear, lance-shaped, oblong 

 leaflets, acute or blunt. The lower leaflets are 

 notched or inversely heart-shaped, or egg-shaped. 

 The flowers are smaller, often solitary, or in pairs, 

 rose colour. The calyx-teeth are nearly as long 

 as the tube. The pods are chiefly spreading, not 

 splitting the calyx. The plant is 6-12 in. high, 

 flowering from April to July, and is a herbaceous 

 annual. 



Spring Vetch (Vicia lathyroides, L.). The 

 habitat of this Vetch is dry gravelly and sandy 

 places, dry pastures, roadsides. The habit is 

 prostrate, then ascending. The plant is hairy. 

 The stem is slender, spreading. The leaflets are 

 in 1-3 pairs acute, blunt, or notched, inversely 

 egg-shaped, linear to oblong. There are no 

 tendrils or simple ones. The flowers are small, 

 solitary, stalkless, lilac-purple, in the axils. The 

 calyx is funnel-shaped, and the calyx-teeth are 

 awl-like, equal, straight, as long as the tube. 

 The pods are hairless, linear, stalkless, tapered 

 both ends, beaked. The 8-12 seeds are tubercled, 

 obtusely angled, nearly cubical, with a very short 

 hilum. The plant is 3-8 in. high, flowering in 

 May and June, and is a herbaceous annual. 



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Rtibits scheutzii, Lindeb. The habitat of this 

 Rubus is open stony places. The habit is that of 

 a bush forming large, low, circular masses. The 

 stem is smooth or nearly so, and shining. The 

 leaflets are the same colour both sides, with a few 

 hairs only. The leaflets are all especially broad, 

 a little paler and soft beneath. The terminal leaf- 

 lets are round, with a very short, blunt point, with 

 almost entire base, and long leaf-stalk. The panicle 

 is long, narrow, leafy. The large petals are pale- 

 lilac. The plant is very prickly. 



Spring Cinquefoil (Potentilla verna, L.). The 

 habitat of this plant is dry hilly pastures. The 

 habit is prostrate. The stem is woody, tufted, 

 branched. The radical leaves have 5-7 wedge- 

 shaped, inversely egg-shaped leaflets, and are 

 green both sides, toothed at the end, the terminal 

 tooth smallest and shortest, with the border bristly, 

 and on the ribs below, blunt, scalloped, or lobed 

 above, with narrow stipules, awl-like above. The 

 stem-leaves have 1-3 leaflets, with egg-shaped, 

 lance-shaped stipules. The flowers are yellow, 

 solitary, or 2-3. The achenes are smooth, hair- 

 less. The plant is 3-6 in. high, flowering from 

 April till June, and is a herbaceous or semi-shrubby 

 perennial. 



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Kidney-leaved Saxifrage (Saxifraga Geiim, L.). 

 The habit of this Saxifrage is the rosette habit. 

 The plant is hairy. The stem is slender. The 

 leaves are hairy, leathery, round, transversely 

 oval or kidney-shaped, scalloped or toothed, 

 heart-shaped below, broader than long, purple, 

 netted below, the leaf-stalk slender, semi-cylind- 

 rical, the edges raised. The flowers are in a 

 racemose panicle. The flowers are as in 5- 

 umbrosa. The plant is 6-12 in. high, flowering 

 in June, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



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Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinetta Saxifraga, L.). 

 The habitat of this species is dry pastures, bushy 

 waste places, and calcareous soils. The habit is 

 erect. The stem is branched, rounded, slender, 

 furrowed, hairless or downy, naked. The root- 

 stock is slender, hot, and acrid. The radical 

 leaves are stalkless, arranged each side of a stalk. 

 The leaflets are in 4-8 pairs, variable, toothed, 

 lobed, the leaves sometimes nearly divided to the 

 base, nearly round, the stem-leaves bipinnate, the 

 lobes much narrower. The flowers are small, 

 white, in a flat-topped umbel. The styles are 

 shorter than the ovary. The plant is 1-2 ft. high, 

 flowering from July to September, and is a herb- 

 aceous perennial. 



Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata, Scop.). The 

 habitat of this plant is dry hilly pastures, waysides, 

 and hedgerows. The habit is erect, with hollow, 

 grooved, stout stems, the leaves large, with tri- 

 angular leaves, tripinnate, with lance-shaped leaf- 

 lets divided nearly to the base, whitish below, 

 blotched above. The flowerheads are large with 

 white florets with petals slightly bent in, the bracts 

 lance-shaped. The fruit is linear, i in. long, with 

 rough ridges, beaked, with slender, spreading 

 styles. The plant is 2-3 ft. high, flowering in 

 May and June, and is perennial, herbaceous. 



Mountain Stone Parsley (Seseli Libanotis, 

 Koch). The habitat of this plant is chalk hills 

 and pastures. The habit is erect, the rosette habit. 

 The plant is hairless or slightly downy, covered 

 below with the remains of decayed leaf-stalks. 

 The stem is stout, solid, furrowed, with few 

 branches. The leaves are twice pinnate, with 

 lobes each side of a common stalk, the leaflets 

 divided nearly to the base. The leaflets are stalk- 

 less, egg-shaped, lance-shaped, blunt-pointed, the 

 lower crossing. The flowers are small, in rounded, 

 terminal, convex umbels, with many downy rays, 

 and nearly equal, awl-like, turned-back bracts, 

 and bracteoles fringed with hairs. The calyx- 

 teeth are awl-like, falling. The fruit is hairy, 

 egg-shaped. The styles are slender, curved back. 

 The plant is 4 in. to 2 ft. or more high, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Bald Money (Menm athamanticnm, Jacq.). 

 The habitat of this plant is hilly fields and dry 

 pastures. The habit is tufted, erect, with rounded 

 stems, with fibrous remains of decayed leaf-stalks 



