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Put down the poppy and take up tte buttercups, 

 all you have gathered (Figs. 2, 3, 4), and, if it 



Fio. 5.— Buttercup petal. Fig. 6. — Seed-Tpsael or piatil of common 



Poppy, a ; h, stamen ; c, part of petal. 



chances to be in the handful, the marsh marigold, 

 which probably some of my readers know as the 

 " May blob." Any and all of these have, as you 

 see, five petals (Fig. 3), and though the central 

 organ (Fig. 4 c) is not exactly similar to that of the 

 poppy (Fig. 6), you may yet observe a likeness in 

 the attachments of the petals beneath it. Take the 

 wallflower, another of your bunch of blossoms, its 

 petals are very different from the petals of the poppy 

 or the buttercups. The latter you have already seen 

 are oval and pointed at the base (Figs. 1, 5) j in the 

 instance before us they are prolonged into the claw 

 (Fig. 8 &), in contradistinction to the broad portion 

 or limb. A somewhat similar petal you iind in the 

 scarlet or white lychnis (Figs. 9, 10), although in 

 other respects it is diverse. Clawed, likewise, but 



