THE BOOK OF NATURE STUDY 



SOME COMMON FLOWERING PLANTS 



(Continued) 



BY WILLIAM H. LANG, M.B., D.Sc., 

 Professor of Cryptogamic Botany in the University of Manchester 



CHAPTER I 



Introductory The Cow-Parsnip The Potato The Foxglove The Heather 

 The Rose Bay Willow Herb The Common Red Poppy The Garden Pea 

 The Ivy The Honeysuckle The Dodder and the Mistletoe The Sundew 

 and the Butterwort The Goat Willow The Apple and Pear The Dog 

 Rose The Ash. 



IN the last chapters of the preceding volume of this book a 

 number of plants which flower in the spring or early summer 

 were described. Many of them can be found in flower throughout 

 the summer, and in view of the special needs of teachers it 

 seemed best to select the majority of types of flowering plants 

 from those in flower before the summer vacation commences. 

 In this chapter a few plants which flower later in the season 

 will be described together with some others remarkable on account 

 of peculiarities in their mode of life, and a few examples of trees 

 and shrubs. 



THE COW-PARSNIP (Heracleum Sphondylium, L.) 



The Cow-Parsnip or Hog-weed can be found in flower through- 

 out the country from June to August. It occurs by waysides, in 

 woods, in meadows and hay-fields, and is conspicuous even among 

 related plants by its large size and broad flat inflorescences of 



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