FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE GREEN LANES. 



whilst those of the common field Knautia or Scabious 

 an abundant, lilac-coloured plant, growing along 

 the moister parts of hedge-banks, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of corn-fields, form some of the most 

 exquisite of microscopical objects. Scarcely less 

 beautiful are the pollen-grains of another common 

 plant, to be found in abundance on the surface of 



Fig. 187. Fig. 188. 



Hair of Antirrhinum (Antir- 

 rhinum majMs). 



Hair of Fig-wort (Scro- 

 phularia nodosa). 



any old tarn or pond, and rightly named Pond- 

 weed (Potamogeton densum). The pollen of the 

 Great Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) a plant with 

 a dart, liver-coloured head of flowers, not uncommon 

 in the meadows of the midland and northern conn- 

 ties is also of an elegant shape, although not 

 equalling the triangular grains of the common Eye- 

 bright (Euphrasia ojficinalis). This latter plant you 



