36^ WAYSIDE WEEDS. 



present Handful, Lastly, the white meadow saxi- 

 frage and the . willow herbs are so common that 

 many of our readers may be able to add them to 

 the company. 



"Pia, 29a, — Section of Blossom cf common Bramble, 



The vetch tribes, represented by the broom, 

 gorge, vetch, and clover (Pigs, 23, 24), are very 

 distinct from the rose family, to which the haw- 

 thorn, apple, strawberry (Fig. 28), and rose itself 

 (Pig. 25) belongs Equally diverse are our hemlock 

 friends (Fig. 30), and not less so the saxifrage and 

 the willow herb. Yet, pull them to pieces, they are 

 all many-petaled, polypetalous (Pig. 31). Thus far 

 they resemble the plants of Handful I., and, for 

 aught you see at present, might be grouped with 

 them ; but we must look further. Different as the 

 groups of Handful II. may seem from each other, 

 they have one common point of resemblance in 

 which they differ from Handful I., and that is in 

 the mode in which their stamens and petals are 

 attached to the other parts of the flower. Call to 

 mind that in the many-petaled blossoms of Handful 

 I. the petals and the stamens were invariably at- 



