CONTENTS. VII 



PACK 



Nettle Early Orchis Cuckoo Flower Marsh Marigold- 

 Origin of names of plants Fox-glove White and Yellow 

 Bedstraws Cleavers Cross-wort Fumitory Granulated 

 Saxifrage Bladder Campion Small Bindweed The Va- 

 lerians Black Knapweed Blue-bell Herb Robert- 

 Shining Crane's-bill Dove's-foot Crane's-bill Stork's-bill 

 Umbelliferous plants Earth Nut Hemlock Fool's 

 Parsley Wild Carrot Rough Chervil St. John's Wort- 

 Yarrow Folk lore of St. John's Wort Viper's Bugloss 

 Rag-wort The Hawkweeds Mouse-ear Chicory Dyer's 

 Rock-weed Ox-eye Daisy The Willow Herbs Purple 

 Loose-strife Yellow Toad Flax Bitter-sweut Old Man's 

 Beard Seeds of plants when magnified Great Mullein 

 Hairs of plants Milk-wort Honeysuckle Primrose Fig- 

 wort Eye-bright Pollen of flowers when magnified Plant- 

 crystals or Ruphides How to obtain them . . . 224251* 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE BUSHES, GRASSES, AND FERNS OF THE GREEN LANES. 



Rushes and sedges Hard Rush The common Rush Toad 

 Rush Early stage of ditto Field Wood rush Remote 

 Carex Fox Carex Great Sedge Yellow Carex Pink- 

 leaved Sedge -Hammer Sedge Cotton Grass Sweet-scented 

 Vernal Grass How the Hay Fever is produced Fox-tail 

 Grass Marsh Fox-tail Meadow Fox-tail Meadow Soft- 

 grass Creeping Soft-grass Brome Grass Barren Brome 

 Common Rye-grass Darnel Bearded Darnel Its evil 

 effects Meadow and Wall Barleys Seaside Barley Millet 

 Couch GrassCrested Dog's Tail Geological antiquity of 

 grasses Ditto of ferns Our British species of ferns The 

 Brake Early stages of fern's growth The Adder's Tongue 

 Maiden-hair Development of Fern spores Oak Fern 

 Common Polypody Hart's Tongue Male and Female Ferns 

 Holly Ferns Royal Fern Maiden-hair Spleenwort 

 Bladder Fern Limestone Polypody Parsley Fern Rue- 

 leaved Fern Scaly Spleenwort Woodsia Bleclmum 



Dilated Fern 2fiO 2'Jl 



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