212 



BRITISH FLORA 



Asch. Leaves triangular-hastate, slightly toothed, 

 smooth. Flowers in a naked spike. Fruit red, 

 succulent, like a small strawberry. 6 in. -2 ft. 

 July-September. Herbaceous annual. 



Chenopodium leptophyllum, Nutt. Differs from 

 C. album, L., in smaller size and very narrow 

 linear leaves. 



Garden Orache (Atriplex hortensis, L. ). Erect. 

 Leaves triangular-cordate, toothed, green, opaque. 

 Calyx more or less rounded, entire. 1-3 ft. July- 

 October. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER POLVGONACE^; 



Polygonum cuspidatum, S. & Z. Stoloniferous. 

 Erect. Leaves broadly cordate, with long, narrow 

 abrupt point. Flowers greenish-white. 3-6 ft. 

 August. Herbaceous perennial. Japanese. 



ORDER URTJCACE.-E 



Hemp (Cannabis saliva, L.). Erect. Stem 

 stout, furrowed, hairy, rigid, fibrous. Leaves 

 opposite, stalked, digitate, toothed, rough, glan- 

 dular. Flowers green. 1-3 ft. July-September. 

 Herbaceous annual. Dioecious. 



Roman Nettle (Urtica pilulifera, L.). Leaves 

 ovate, coarsely toothed. Flowers green, futile 

 ones in globular heads. 1-3 ft. June-August. 

 Herbaceous annual. Sting very venomous. Said 

 to have been introduced by the Romans. 



ORDER LILIACEJE 



Allium paradoxum, Don. Leaves channelled, 

 rolled in wards above. Scape leafy below. Flowers 

 white. Corolla bell-shaped, with elliptic, blunt 

 segments. 6-12 in. July. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Siberian. 



ORDER GRAMINACE*: 



Finger Grass (Panicum sanguinale, L.). As- 

 cending. Leaves and sheaths hairy. Spikelets 

 one-sided on digitate spikes. Flowering glumes 

 awnless. 6-12 in. July. Herbaceous annual. 



Millet Grass (Panicum miliaceum, L.). Erect. 

 Leaves large, soft. Panicle drooping, tinged with 

 dark-brown. 1-2 ft. July-September. Her- 

 baceous annual. 



Phleum paniculatum, Huds. Glumes wedge- 

 shaped; lateral ribs not conspicuous. Panicle 

 cylindrical, slender. 6-12 in. June. Herbaceous 

 annual. Rare. 



Bromus tectorum, L. Erect. Stem downy. 

 Awn short, as long as outer glumes. Flowers in 



a one-sided panicle. Spikelets small. 9-15 in. 

 June. Herbaceous annual. Rare. 



Bromus squarrosus, L. Panicle simple, droop- 

 ing. Flowers nearly smooth, overlapping. Spike- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, somewhat flattened. Lower 

 palea 9-ribbed. Awn twisted, spreading. 1-2 ft. 

 June-August. Herbaceous annual. 



Bromus patulus, M. & K. ( = B. japonicus, 

 Thunb.). Panicle compound, spreading, branches 

 turned back finally. Spikelets lanceolate. Lower 

 palea y-ribbed. 9-15 in. June-August. Her- 

 baceous annual. 



MARSHES, BOGS, ETC. 



ORDER VIOLACE^: 



Large Bog Violet (Viola montana, L.). Root- 

 stock creeping. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, long, 

 narrowed gradually from below. Flowers nearly 

 circular, bluish-white or pale-blue. Spur green. 

 6-12 in. April-June. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Fens, Hunts. 



ORDER VACCINIACE^E 



American Cranberry (Oxycoccos macrocarpus, 

 Pers. ). Creeping. Leaves oblong; margins flat. 

 Flowers red, lateral. Fruit large, globular. July. 

 Perennial shrub. Flintshire bogs. 



ORDER J UNCAGED 



Obtuse-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus, 

 Schrank =/. obtusiflorus, Ehrh.). Erect. Stem 

 round in section. Leaves septate, hollow, round 

 in section. Flowers in a spreading cyme with 

 zigzag branches. Perianth-segments blunt, pale, 

 as long as the narrow-pointed capsule. 1-3 ft. 

 July. Herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER CYPERACE/E 



Brown Bog-rush (Schoenus ferrtigineus, L.). 

 Tufted. Stems grooved. Spikelets 1-3, lateral, 

 slender, nearly equalling the erect sheathing 

 bracts. 4-8 in. June. Herbaceous perennial. 

 Perthshire bogs. 



Soft Brown Sedge (Carex disticha, Huds. = 6\ 

 intermedia, Good.). Soboles far-reaching. Stems 

 erect, equalling leaves. Spike nearly unisexual. 

 Spikelets in an oblong interrupted spike, in two 

 rows. Upper and lower fertile, intermediate bar- 

 ren. Fruit ovoid-lanceolate, with narrow wing, 

 longer than glumes. 1-2 ft. June. Herbaceous 

 perennial. 



