WAYSIDE WEEDS. 



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another again? Quite impossible, for small as the 

 marks of difference may be, they are constant. 

 Lastly, get into your mind an idea of the general 

 appearance of these plants — ^the general habit, as 

 botanists call it — and you will have achieved a prac- 



Fia. 21. — Leaf of common Buttercup. 



tical lesson in plant lore which will not readily be 

 forgot. The above are three of the crowfoot family, 

 with a strong resemblance ; but there are many of 

 the same family, or, let us designate it properly, 

 genus, very different; some have comparatively 

 small flowers, and some are white, as we find in 



