38 FLOWER-LAND. 



most common has its seeds in a little pouch, or bag, 

 somewhat heart-shaped, so it is called Sheplierd's purse. 

 Though small, its flowers are a good example of these 

 cross-shaped ones that we are looking for. 



Can you see any yellow flowers in the corn-fields 

 that we pass ? There are sometimes many of them, 

 and they look very pretty just above the blades 

 of the green corn. But they are very troublesome 

 to farmers, and in some parts of England the 

 village children are employed to pull them up. 



These charlock flowers show the cross-shape very 

 well. So does the wallflower not the double, but the 

 single one. Perhaps you have not seen it growing 

 wild, but you know it in our gardens 

 very well. By its side you can often 

 see another example in the single 

 stock, and you would see others in 

 the flowers of the cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, radish, or common mustard. 



Plants with this kind of cross- 

 shaped flower are all put together in Fig. 31. Flower of 



one of the Cross-} \ 



one natural order, the natural order bearers. ^- 



of the cross-bearers. There are plenty of them to be 

 found ; and though you may not find many of them 

 which you know, as yet, by their names, you will not 

 have any difficulty, I think, in knowing them by their 

 flowers (Fig. 31). 



Of the second natural order that I shall tell you 

 about, the sweet pea is perhaps the best example for 



