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which frequently cover the stems and leaves of many 

 of our flowering plants, and which the student will 

 generally find assuming distinct shapes in various 

 species of flowers, much as they may seem alike to 

 the naked eye. Some of these hairs, as on the 

 common Honeysuckle (Lonicera peri- F . Ig4 

 clymenum, Fig. 181) and the Milkwort 

 (Poly gala vulgaris) are exceedingly 

 simple. The latter plant is very 

 pretty, although not more than two 

 or three inches in height, and may 

 be found on heaths or on the drier 

 parts of the hedge banks, where its 

 little tassel-shaped, sky-blue flowers 

 will readily recommend it to the eye. 

 The hairs of the great mullein, and 

 mouse-eared hawkweed, on the con- 

 trary, are much branched. In the 

 Bagged Kobin (Lychnis flos-cuculi, Fig. 

 189 a), the common Primrose (Primula 

 vulgaris, Fig. 185), and Kib-wort plan- 

 tain (Plantago lanceolata, Fig. 186), 

 the vegetable hairs are formed out of Hair ,* A * ouse ; 



eared HawKweeu 



simple beaded cells. In the Antir- (Hieratium pilo- 

 rhinum (Fig. 187) and Fig-wort (Scro- sella * 

 pliuiaria nodosa)ihe latter a common plant by the 

 sides of streams or ditches, where its reddish-green 

 flowers, resembling those of a calceolaria, and its 

 unpleasant odour when bruised, will readily identify 

 it the hairs assume a peculiar shape, ending with 



