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BRITISH FLORA 



club-shaped, roughly hairy. Stigma convex, 

 4-6 rayed. 6-18 in. May-July. Herbaceous 

 annual. 



Rough-headed Poppy (Papaver hybridum, L.). 



Erect. Stem with few branches. Leaves 2- 



pinnatirid : lobes acute or awned. Flowers crim- | 

 son or purplish, with dark eye. Filaments swollen ] 

 above. Capsule rounded, roughly hairy. Stigma 



6-15 in. June-August. 



convex, 4-8 rayed. 

 Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER FI'MARIACEJE 



Fine-leaved Fumitory (Fumaria parviflora* 

 Lam.). Stem erect or spreading. Leaves grey- 

 ish or bluish-green. Segments narrow, chan- 

 nelled. Flowers whitish or purple. Raceme dense. 

 Sepals small, triangular- ovate, linear, acute. 

 Flower-stalks equal to bracts, shorter than fruit. 

 Fruit obovate, small-warted. 6-10 in. June- 

 September. 



ORDER COMPOSITE 



Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria inodora, L.). 

 Erect or spreading. Stem branched, angular, 

 smooth, without barren shoots. Leaves sessile, | 

 pinnatifid. Segments capillary, pointed. Flower- 

 heads terminal, solitary. . Involucral bracts lan- 

 ceolate, blunt, with a brown border. Rav white; 

 disk yellow. Receptacle ovate, then conical. 

 Fruit rough, with two glands on the outer side 

 below the entire raised border. Scent faint or nil. 

 1-1; ft. Tune-October. Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER COXYOLVULACE.C 



Clover Dodder iCusca/a Trijblii, Bab.). 

 On Clover. Differs from Heath Dodder chiefly in 

 having yellowish-white flowers and vellow apicu- 

 late anthers. 1-3 ft. August. 



ORDER OROBAXCHACE.*: 



Or?>bancr.f ramc-sa. L. On Hemp. Stem 

 branched. Calyx tubular; calyx-teeth 4, triangular- 

 ovate, pointed. Corolla i-in., blue. Anthers 

 smooth. 4-S in. Annual. Rare. 



Great Broom -Rape (Orobanche reticulata, 

 \\all.l. On Thistles. Sepals simple, hairy onlv at 

 the base. Corolla white or yellowish. Filaments 

 glandular, hairy above. 1-5 ft. July. Perennial. 

 Yorkshire. Very rare. 



ORDER ILLECEBRACE.I 



Annual Knawel (Self rant hus annuus, LA 

 Steins much branched, dichotomous, slender. 

 Leaves bent back, often white below. Flowers \ 

 green, solitary below, forming a dense corymb | 

 above. Calyx-lobes acute, with narrow mem- 

 branous border; spreading and lo-nerved in fruit. 

 2-8 in. June-September. Herbaceous annual or 

 biennial. 



ORDER GRAMISACE.* 



Rye Grass (Lolium mulliflorum. Lam.). No 

 barren shoots, and not tufted (difference from L. 

 italicum\. Paler than L. perenne. Ligule short, 

 abrupt. 9-14 flowers in each spikelet. Lower 

 palea with long awn. 1-2 ft. June. Annual. 

 Cultivated. 



SEA-COASTS 



ORDER CRUCIFER^E 



English Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia anglica, L.). 

 Differs from Common Scurvy Grass as follows: 

 Much larger. Radical leaves not cordate. Stem- 

 leaves half - clasping. Pod oblong, obovoid, 

 deeply furrowed. Style slender. 10-18 in. May. 

 Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER CARYOPHYLLACE.* 



Pink (Dianlhus gallicus, Pers.). Like the 

 Cheddar Pink in habit and size. Lower part of 

 stem with small papillate hairs. Leaves with 

 fine marginal teeth. Calyx longer, cylindrical. 

 Flowers dark-rose. Petals with long, irregular, 

 sub-linear, blunt lobes. Sand-dunes, Jersey. 

 July-September. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER LEGIMIXOS.* 



Yellow Vetch (Vicia lutea, L.). Sufficiently 

 characterized by the solitary or paired sessile 

 pale-vellow flowers. Calvx-teeth unequal, upper 

 shorter, lower longer than the calyx-tube. Pod 

 turned back, with bulbous hairs. 6-18 in. June- 

 August. Herbaceous annual. 



ORDER CRASSULACE^ 



Sedum Drucei, Gra^bner. The common British 

 form, previously included in Sedum acre, L. 

 The genuine S. acre is stouter, more erect, and 

 tufted, with thicker leaves ; according to Osten- 

 felde, it is found in Stirlingshire. S. Drucei is 

 common on shores, also inland on rocks, walls, 

 and dry sandv soil. 



ORDER CHENOPODIACE.^E 



Shrubby Orache (Atripkx Halimus, L.). 

 Recently established on the south coast. Branches 

 white. Leaves rhomboidal, silvery. Otherwise 

 like A. hortensis. 2-6 ft. July - September. 

 Perennial evergreen shrub. 



ORDER POLYGOXACE.S 



Rumex rufestris, Le Gall. Radical - leaves 

 oblong. Stem-leaves strap-shaped, rounded, and 

 narrowed at both ends. Bracts few, narrow. 

 Panicle tapering; whorls rather close. Sepals 

 large, with nearly parallel sides, narrow, ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, entire. A very large tubercle on 

 each perianth-lobe. Xuts ovate, acute. 1-3 ft. 

 June -September. Herbaceous perennial. South- 

 west coast. Rare. 



ORDER GRA>IINACE;E 



Kceleria albescens, DC. Differs mainly from 

 K. gracilis, Pers., in having the leaves rolled 

 lengthwise. 6-18 in. June. Herbaceous peren- 

 nial. Dorset and Channel Islands. Very rare. 



WOODS AND COPSES 



ORDER FUMARIACE.C 



Capnoides buJbosa, DC. Erect. Rootstock 

 tuberous, solid. Stem stout, simple. Leaves 



